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144 relations: Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands), Aitcho Islands (South Shetland Islands), Algae, Antarctic Convergence, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Place-names Commission, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Antártica Chilena Province, Archipelago, Argentine Antarctica, Artigas Base, Atlantic Ocean, Basalt, Basaltic andesite, Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Beau Riffenburgh, Bellingshausen Station, Bouvet Island, Bransfield Basin, Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands), Brigadier, British Antarctic Territory, Buenos Aires, Bulgaria, Byers Peninsula, Camp Academia, Camp Byers, Camp Livingston (Antarctica), Cape Horn, Cape Plenty, Captain Arturo Prat Base, Carlini Base, Cámara Base, Chile, Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands), Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, Cornwallis Island (South Shetland Islands), Deception Island, Deception Station, Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands), Dirck Gerritsz Pomp, Doctor Guillermo Mann Base, Drake Passage, Eadie Island, Ecoregion, Edinburgh Hill, Edward Bransfield, Elephant Island, Equator, ... Expand index (94 more) »
- Archipelagoes of the Southern Ocean
- Falkland Islands in World War II
Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands)
Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Aitcho Islands (South Shetland Islands)
The Aitcho Islands (‘Aitcho’ standing for ‘H.O.’ i.e. ‘Hydrographic Office’) are a group of minor islands on the west side of the north entrance to English Strait separating Greenwich Island and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, which are situated between Dee Island to the south and Table Island to the north.
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Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
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Antarctic Convergence
The Antarctic Convergence or Antarctic Polar Front is a marine belt encircling Antarctica, varying in latitude seasonally, where cold, northward-flowing Antarctic waters meet the relatively warmer waters of the sub-Antarctic.
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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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Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
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Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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Antártica Chilena Province
Antártica Chilena Province (Provincia Antártica Chilena) is the southernmost of the four provinces in Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region (XII).
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Argentine Antarctica
Argentine Antarctica (Antártida Argentina or) is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory.
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Artigas Base
The General Artigas Station (Base Científica Antártica Artigas), also referred to as the Artigas Base is the larger of the two Uruguayan scientific research stations in Antarctica, the other one being Elichiribehety Base.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
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Basaltic andesite
Basaltic andesite is a volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between basalt and andesite.
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Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile.
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Beau Riffenburgh
Beau Riffenburgh (born 1955) is an American author and historian specializing in polar exploration.
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Bellingshausen Station
Bellingshausen Station (Russian: станция Беллинсгаузен) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) Antarctic station at Collins Harbour, on King George Island of the South Shetland Islands.
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Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited island and dependency of Norway. South Shetland Islands and Bouvet Island are seal hunting.
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Bransfield Basin
The Bransfield Basin is a back-arc rift basin located off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands)
Bridgeman Island is one of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica.
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Brigadier
Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country.
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British Antarctic Territory
The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories, of which it is by far the largest by area.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
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Byers Peninsula
Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Camp Academia
Camp Academia (lager Akademiya) is a geographical locality in eastern Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in appreciation of the Academy’s contribution to Antarctic exploration.
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Camp Byers
Camp Byers (Campamento Byers) is a Spanish seasonal base camp on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Camp Livingston (Antarctica)
Camp Livingston (Campamento Livingston, Campamento Científico Livingston) is an Argentine seasonal base camp on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.
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Cape Plenty
Cape Plenty is the southeast cape of Gibbs Island (actually marks south point of the island), in the South Shetland Islands.
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Captain Arturo Prat Base
Captain Arturo Prat Base (Spanish: Base Naval Antártica "Arturo Prat") is a Chilean Antarctic research station located at Iquique Cove, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Carlini Base
Carlini Base (Base Carlini), formerly known as Jubany Base, is an Argentine permanent base and scientific research station named after scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini (previously it had been named after Argentine naval pilot José Isidro Jubany).
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Cámara Base
Cámara Base (Base Cámara or sometimes Estación Cámara or Teniente Camara) is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Frigate Lieutenant Naval Aviator Juan Ramón Cámara.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands)
Clarence Island (остров Шишкова) is the easternmost island in the South Shetland Islands, off the coast of Antarctica.
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Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station (Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz) is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz (1940–1982), who visited Antarctica many times with the British exploration team and managed to convince his government to create a self-guided Brazilian Antarctic Program.
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Cornwallis Island (South Shetland Islands)
Cornwallis Island is an island long, which lies northeast of the east end of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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Deception Island
Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano. South Shetland Islands and Deception Island are Falkland Islands in World War II and seal hunting.
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Deception Station
Deception Station (Base Decepción) is an Argentine antarctic base located at Deception Island, South Shetland Islands.
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Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands)
Desolation Island is one of the minor islands in the South Shetlands archipelago, Antarctica situated at the entrance to Hero Bay, Livingston Island. South Shetland Islands and Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands) are seal hunting.
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Dirck Gerritsz Pomp
Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp, alias Dirck China (1544 – c. 1608), was a Dutch sailor of the 16th–17th century, and the first known Dutchman to visit China and Japan.
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Doctor Guillermo Mann Base
Doctor Guillermo Mann Base (formerly Camp Shirreff) is a Chilean Antarctic research base.
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Drake Passage
The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Eadie Island
Eadie Island is an island long which lies between Aspland Island and O'Brien Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.
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Edinburgh Hill
Edinburgh Hill is a narrow point projecting 650 m from the east coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica into McFarlane Strait and ending up in a conspicuous rocky hill of elevation 180 m. The point forms the northwest side of the entrance to Moon Bay.
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Edward Bransfield
Edward Bransfield (c. 1785 – 31 October 1852) was an Irish sailor who became an officer in the British Royal Navy, serving as a master on several ships, after being impressed into service in Ireland at the age of 18.
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Elephant Island
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
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Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (–) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
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Gabriel de Castilla
Gabriel de Castilla (1577 – c. 1620) was a Spanish explorer and navigator.
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Gabriel de Castilla Base
Gabriel de Castilla Base is a Spanish research station located on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands)
Gibbs Island (остров Рожнова) lies southwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
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Gleaner Heights
The Gleaner Heights are a series of elevations extending for southwest from Leslie Hill in the eastern part of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.
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Great Wall Station (Antarctica)
The Great Wall Station (Chinese: 长城站; pinyin: Chángchéng Zhàn) is the first Chinese research station in Antarctica and opened on 20 February 1985.
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Greenwich Island
Greenwich Island (variant historical names Sartorius Island, Berezina Island) is an island long and from (average) wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.The island's surface area is.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
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Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a minor Antarctic island, lying in McFarlane Strait north of Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula region.
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Hannah Point
Hannah Point is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Hazel Prior
Hazel Prior (born in Oxford, England) is a Celtic harpist and the author of four bestselling novels.
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Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station
Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station (Polish: Polska Stacja Antarktyczna im. Henryka Arctowskiego) is a Polish research station on King George Island, off the coast of Antarctica.
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Ivanov Beach
Ivanov Beach (Ivanov bryag) is a mostly ice-free beach on the Drake Passage stretching in southwest–northeast direction on the southeast coast of Barclay Bay in western Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica.
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
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Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base
Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base, named after the former king of Spain, Juan Carlos I (Base Antártica Española Juan Carlos Primero), is a seasonal (November to March) scientific station operated by Spain, opened in January 1988.
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Juan Pedro Aguirre
Juan Pedro Julián Aguirre y López de Anaya (October 19, 1781 – July 17, 1837) was an Argentine revolutionary and politician.
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King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
King George Island (Argentinian Spanish: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chilean Spanish: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. South Shetland Islands and King George Island (South Shetland Islands) are seal hunting.
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King Sejong Station
The King Sejong Station is a research station for the Korea Antarctic Research Program that is named after King Sejong the Great of Joseon (1397–1450).
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
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Livingston Island
Livingston Island (Russian name Smolensk) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. South Shetland Islands and Livingston Island are seal hunting.
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Low Island (South Shetland Islands)
Low Island or Isla Baja, historical names Jameson Island or Jamesons Island, is an island long and wide, southeast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Machu Picchu Base
The Machu Picchu Scientific Base is a Peruvian polar scientific research facility in Antarctica, established to conduct Antarctic research on geology, climatology and biology.
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Maldonado Base
Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island.
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Melville Peak
Melville Peak is a prominent peak surmounting Cape Melville, the eastern cape of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica.
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Mikhail Lazarev
Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (Михаил Петрович Лазарев) was a Russian fleet commander and an explorer.
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Mise-en-scène
Mise-en-scène ("placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through directions.
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Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
Mixed is an ethnic group category that was first introduced by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics for the 2001 Census.
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Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
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Mount Foster
Mount Foster is a peak rising to in the Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory.
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Nathaniel Palmer
Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799 – June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
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Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands)
Nelson Island (historical names Leipzig Island, O'Cain's Island and Strachans Island) is an island long and wide, lying southwest of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Niobium
Niobium is a chemical element; it has symbol Nb (formerly columbium, Cb) and atomic number 41.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
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Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands)
Penguin Island (also known as Georges Island, Île Pingouin, Isla Pingüino, and Penguin Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
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Phantom island
A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Profesor Julio Escudero Base
Professor Julio Escudero Base is a permanent Chilean Antarctic research base.
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Revista de Marina
Revista de Marina is a bimonthly magazine published by the Chilean Navy since 1885.
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Rezen Knoll
Rezen Knoll (vrah Rezen) is a knoll rising to 433 m in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Robert Island
Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island long and wide, situated between Nelson Island and Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta
Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta (1771–1819) was a Peruvian-born Spanish admiral, Brigadier of the Royal Spanish Navy.
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Rotch Dome
Rotch Dome is the sloping ice dome rising to 360 m immediately east of Byers Peninsula, and between Barclay Bay and Walker Bay in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Rowett Island (South Shetland Islands)
Rowett Island is a rocky island long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Rugged Island (South Shetland Islands)
Rugged Island (in Spanish Isla Rugosa, variant historical names Lloyds Island or Ragged Island) is an island long and wide, lying west of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. South Shetland Islands and Rugged Island (South Shetland Islands) are seal hunting.
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Russian Antarctic Expedition
Russian Antarctic Expedition (Российская Антарктическая экспедиция; RAE) is a continuously operating expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia.
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San Telmo (Spanish ship)
San Telmo ("Saint Peter González" or "Saint Erasmus of Formia") was a Spanish 74-gun ship of the line, launched in 1788.
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Scotia Sea
The Scotia Sea is a sea located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Sea ice
Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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Seal Islands (South Shetland Islands)
The Seal Islands (also known as Îles des Phoques, Islas Foca, Islotes Foca and Seal Rocks) are a group of small islands and rocky islets lying about 7 km north and north-west of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. South Shetland Islands and Seal Islands (South Shetland Islands) are seal hunting.
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Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.
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Shirreff Base
Shirreff Base (original name Cape Shirreff Field Station) is a seasonal field station in the Southern Ocean operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and opened in 1996.
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Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)
Smith Island is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory.
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Snow Island (South Shetland Islands)
Snow Island or Isla Nevada is a completely ice-covered island, in size, lying southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Sofia
Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.
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South Georgia
South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. South Shetland Islands and South Georgia are seal hunting.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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South Orkney Islands
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, David McGonigal, 2009 and south-west of South Georgia Island. South Shetland Islands and south Orkney Islands are Archipelagoes of the Southern Ocean and seal hunting.
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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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St. Kliment Ohridski Base
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Stancomb Cove
Stancomb Cove is a cove northeast of Cross Hill in the northwest part of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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Stanley Patch
Stanley Patch is a shoal (shallow water) lying in Port Foster, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west-northwest of Fildes Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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Stump Rock
Stump Rock is an offshore rock in the west portion of King George Bay, 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) northwest of Martello Tower in the South Shetland Islands, which was charted and named in 1937 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RRS Discovery II.
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Susanna Gregory
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer.
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Table Island (South Shetland Islands)
Table Island is a conspicuous flat-topped, rocky island lying north of Greenwich Island and north-northwest of the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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TAS classification
TAS stands for Total Alkali Silica.
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Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.
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The Watchkeeper
The Watchkeeper is a low rock fringed on the north side by sunken rocks, lying north of Table Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.
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Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), officially the Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands (Spanish: Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur), is the southernmost, smallest, and least populous Argentine province.
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Tourism in Antarctica
Tourism started in Antarctica by the sea in the 1960s.
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Trachyte
Trachyte is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar.
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Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
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United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
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Valparaíso
Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.
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Verila Glacier
Verila Glacier (lednik Verila) on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southeast of southern Etar Snowfield, southwest of Berkovitsa and Tundzha Glaciers, and west of Kamchiya Glacier.
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Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
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Wensleydale Beacon
Wensleydale Beacon is a hill, 110 m, situated just north of Fumarole Bay, on the west side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
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William Smith (mariner)
William Smith (c. 1790–1847) was an English captain born in Blyth, Northumberland, who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago off the Graham Land in Antarctica.
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Williams Point
Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Yttrium
Yttrium is a chemical element; it has symbol Y and atomic number 39.
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See also
Archipelagoes of the Southern Ocean
- Antipodes Islands
- Auckland Islands
- Balleny Islands
- Biscoe Islands
- Bounty Islands
- Campbell Islands
- Depot Island (Bounty Islands)
- Diego Ramírez Islands
- Géologie Archipelago
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Law Islands
- Lyall Islands
- Mikkelsen Islands
- Palmer Archipelago
- Pitt Islands
- Snares Islands
- South Orkney Islands
- South Shetland Islands
- Wilhelm Archipelago
Falkland Islands in World War II
- Cumberland Bay
- Deception Island
- Fram Farrington
- History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- History of the Falkland Islands
- Leith Harbour
- South Shetland Islands
- Stromness Bay
References
Also known as Atherton Islands, History of the South Shetland Islands, Keep Rock, New Shetland Islands, South Shetland, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, South Shetlands, South Shetlands Archipelago, Square End Island.