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Marguerite Bay

Marguerite Bay or Margaret Bay is an extensive bay on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is bounded on the north by Adelaide Island and on the south by Wordie Ice Shelf, George VI Sound and Alexander Island. ^[1]

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20 relations: Adelaide Island, Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Fallières Coast, French Antarctic Expedition, George VI Sound, Hadley Upland, HMS Endurance (1967), Horseshoe Island (Antarctica), Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Lagotellerie Island, Mushroom Island, Pourquoi Pas Island, Puffball Islands, Reef, RRS John Biscoe (1956), Southern Ocean, Terminal Island (Antarctica), Wordie Ice Shelf.
Bays of Graham Land
Landforms of Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Alexander Island

Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica.

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Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Fallières Coast

The Fallières Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the head of Bourgeois Fjord and Cape Jeremy and lies on Marguerite Bay and the Wordie Ice Shelf. Marguerite Bay and Fallières Coast are Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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French Antarctic Expedition

The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.

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George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf.

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Hadley Upland

Hadley Upland is a triangular shaped remnant plateau with an undulating surface,, in southern Graham Land, Antarctica. Marguerite Bay and Hadley Upland are Fallières Coast.

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HMS Endurance (1967)

HMS Endurance was a Royal Navy ice patrol vessel that served from 1967 to 1991.

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Horseshoe Island (Antarctica)

Horseshoe Island is an island long and wide occupying most of the entrance to Square Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Marguerite Bay and Horseshoe Island (Antarctica) are Fallières Coast.

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Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893).

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Lagotellerie Island

Lagotellerie Island is an island long, lying west of Horseshoe Island in Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Marguerite Bay and Lagotellerie Island are Fallières Coast and Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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Mushroom Island

Mushroom Island in the Antarctic is an ice-covered island lying west-southwest of Cape Berteaux, off the west coast of Graham Land. Marguerite Bay and Mushroom Island are Fallières Coast and Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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Pourquoi Pas Island

Pourquoi Pas Island is a mountainous island, long and from wide, lying between Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord off the west coast of Graham Land. Marguerite Bay and Pourquoi Pas Island are Fallières Coast and Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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Puffball Islands

Puffball Islands is a scattered group of small, low, mainly ice-covered islands and rocks which extend about 10 nautical miles (18 km) in a NE-SW direction, lying in southern Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Marguerite Bay and Puffball Islands are Fallières Coast and Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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Reef

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.

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RRS John Biscoe (1956)

The RRS John Biscoe was a supply and research vessel used by the British Antarctic Survey between 1956 and 1991.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Terminal Island (Antarctica)

Terminal Island is a low snow-covered island off the north tip of Alexander Island, in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

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Wordie Ice Shelf

The Wordie Ice Shelf was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Marguerite Bay and Wordie Ice Shelf are Fallières Coast and Fallières Coast geography stubs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bay

Also known as Endurance Reef, Margaret Bay, Toadstool Rocks.

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