Thurston Island

Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 17 relations: Abbot Ice Shelf, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Amundsen Sea, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Bellingshausen Sea, Byrd Cloth, Carpenter Island, Dustin Island, Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, List of glaciers on Thurston Island, Martin PBM Mariner, Richard E. Byrd, Sikorski Glacier, United States Antarctic Program, Walker Mountains.

2. Islands of Ellsworth Land
3. Islands of Marie Byrd Land

Abbot Ice Shelf

The Abbot Ice Shelf is an ice shelf long and wide, bordering Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Pfrogner Point in Antarctica.

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Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Amundsen Sea

The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica.

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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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Bellingshausen Sea

The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern Vostokkysten).

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Byrd Cloth

Byrd Cloth is a type of fabric similar to Grenfell Cloth which was designed in the 1934 by Harris Thurston and heavily promoted by Antarctic explorer Richard Byrd.

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Carpenter Island

Carpenter Island is a man-made, backward letter L-shaped island and boat launch area on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Dustin Island

Dustin Island is an island about long, lying southeast of Cape Annawan, Thurston Island. Thurston Island and Dustin Island are islands of Ellsworth Land.

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Eights Coast

Eights Coast is a portion of the coast of West Antarctica, between Cape Waite and Pfrogner Point.

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Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf.

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List of glaciers on Thurston Island

This is a list of glaciers on Thurston Island, an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.

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Martin PBM Mariner

The Martin PBM Mariner is a twin-engine American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War era.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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Sikorski Glacier

The Sikorski Glacier is a small glacier in the north-eastern part of the Noville Peninsula, Thurston Island, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.

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United States Antarctic Program

The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.

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Walker Mountains

The Walker Mountains are a range of peaks and nunataks which are fairly well separated but trend east–west to form the axis, or spine, of Thurston Island in Antarctica.

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See also

Islands of Ellsworth Land

• Dustin Island
• Schaefer Islands
• Thurston Island

Islands of Marie Byrd Land

• Brownson Islands
• Burtis Island
• Carney Island
• Cruzen Island
• Edwards Islands (Canisteo Peninsula)
• Grant Island
• Lauff Island
• Lindsey Islands
• Maher Island
• Marshall Archipelago
• Pranke Island
• Radford Island
• Shepard Island
• Siple Island
• Thurston Island
• Wright Island

References

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

Also known as Baker Knob, Ball Peninsula, Belknap Nunatak, Boker Rocks, Cadwalader Inlet, Cape Annawan, Cape Braathen, Cape Davies, Cape Flying Fish, Cape Petersen, Cape Walden, Cape Walker, Dyer Point, Edwards Peninsula, Edwards Peninsula, Thurston Island, Evans Peninsula, Evans Point, Glacier Bight, Gould Knoll, Harrison Nunatak, Henry Inlet, Hughes Peninsula, Jones Peninsula, Jordan Nunatak, Kearns Peninsula, King Cliffs, Koether Inlet, Linsley Peninsula, Long Bluff, Morgan Inlet, Mount Bubier, Mount Dowling, Mulroy Island, Murphy Inlet, O'Dowd Cove, Pallid Crest, Peale Inlet, Potaka Inlet, Prickly Ridge, Ryan Point, Schwartz Cove, Shelton Head, Simpson Bluff, Smith Cliff, Starr Peninsula, Tierney Peninsula, Tinglof Peninsula, Von der Wall Point, Wagoner Inlet, Williams Island (Antarctica), Williamson Peninsula.

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