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22 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Bellingshausen Sea, Black Coast, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, Charcot Island, Curtiss T-32 Condor II, Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, George VI Sound, Hilton Inlet, Marguerite Bay, Odom Inlet, Palmer Land, Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, Smithsonian Institution, Snyder Peninsula, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, United States Antarctic Program, United States Geological Survey, Weddell Sea.
- Peninsulas of Palmer Land
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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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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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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Black Coast
Black Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Boggs and Cape Mackintosh.
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British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Charcot Island
Charcot Island or Charcot Land is an island administered under the Antarctic Treaty System, long and wide, which is ice covered except for prominent mountains overlooking the north coast.
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Curtiss T-32 Condor II
The Curtiss T-32 Condor II was a 1930s American biplane airliner and bomber aircraft built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.
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Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC, FRGS, FAINA (22 April 1923 – 21 July 2012) was an English-born Canadian geologist and glaciologist, recognized as a pioneering researcher of Northern Canada.
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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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Hilton Inlet
Hilton Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, wide, which recedes about west from its entrance between Cape Darlington and Cape Knowles, along the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
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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.
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Odom Inlet
Odom Inlet is an ice-filled inlet long, between Cape Howard and Cape MacDonald along the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
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Palmer Land
Palmer Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.
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Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Snyder Peninsula
Snyder Peninsula is a high, ice-covered peninsula on the south side of Lamplugh Inlet terminating in Cape Howard, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Condor Peninsula and Snyder Peninsula are peninsulas of Palmer Land.
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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).
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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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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre.
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See also
Peninsulas of Palmer Land
- Condor Peninsula
- Eielson Peninsula
- Kemp Peninsula
- Kvinge Peninsula
- Merz Peninsula
- Piggott Peninsula
- Smith Peninsula
- Snyder Peninsula
References
Also known as Angle Peak (Antarctica), Cadle Monolith, Cape Hattersley-Smith, Kamenev Nunatak, Mount Geier, Mount Showers, Mount Whiting, Schirmacher Massif, Waitt Peaks.