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Andvord Bay

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Andvord Bay is a bay, long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 44 relations: Adrien de Gerlache, Anastigmat, Antarctic Peninsula, Anvers Island, Aquatic sill, Arctowski Peninsula, Belgian Antarctic Expedition, British Antarctic Survey, Brown Station, Carl Zeiss AG, Circumpolar deep water, Danco Coast, David Ferguson (geologist), Edouard Van Beneden, Emil von Höegh, Fjord, Forbidden Plateau, François Arago, Gerlache Strait, Graham Land, Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, Henryk Arctowski, Hunting Aerosurveys, John Henry Dallmeyer, Lemaire Island, List of geodesists, Maxar Technologies, Mollusca, National Science Foundation, Oslo, Paradise Harbour, Paul Rudolph (physicist), Photic zone, Phytoplankton, Polar Geospatial Center, Polish Antarctic Expedition, Retreat of glaciers since 1850, Rolf Andvord (consul), Rongé Island, Spherical aberration, T. W. Bagshawe, Thomas Grubb, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, University of Minnesota.

  2. Bays of Graham Land

Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.

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Anastigmat

An anastigmat or anastigmatic lens is a photographic lens completely corrected for the three main optical aberrations: spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism.

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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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Anvers Island

Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.

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Aquatic sill

An aquatic sill (or an oceanic sill) is a sea floor barrier of relatively shallow depth (tens to hundreds of meters) that restricts water movement between benthic zones of an oceanic basin or lake bottom.

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Arctowski Peninsula

The Arctowski Peninsula is a peninsula, long in a north-south direction, lying between Andvord Bay and Wilhelmina Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Andvord Bay and Arctowski Peninsula are Danco Coast.

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Belgian Antarctic Expedition

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.

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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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Brown Station

Brown Station (Estación Científica Almirante Brown, or more often Base Brown or Estación Brown) is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown, the father of the Argentine Navy. Andvord Bay and Brown Station are Danco Coast.

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Carl Zeiss AG

Carl Zeiss AG, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss.

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Circumpolar deep water

Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) is a designation given to the water mass in the Pacific and Indian oceans that is a mixing of other water masses in the region.

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Danco Coast

The Danco Coast is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard.

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David Ferguson (geologist)

David Ferguson (c. 1857 – 1936) was a Scottish explorer, mining engineer and prospector.

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Edouard Van Beneden

Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist.

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Emil von Höegh

Emil von Höegh (10 May 1865 – 29 January 1915) was an optical lens designer, known for inventing the first double anastigmatic camera lens called Dagor in 1892.

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Fjord

In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Forbidden Plateau

The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast.

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François Arago

Dominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (Catalan: Francesc Aragó,; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.

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Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula.

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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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Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (15 May 1821 – 21 July 1901) was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist born in Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne.

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Henryk Arctowski

Henryk Arctowski (15 July 1871 – 21 February 1958), born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer.

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Hunting Aerosurveys

Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography company founded by Percy Hunting in 1944.

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John Henry Dallmeyer

John Henry Dallmeyer (6 September 183030 December 1883), Anglo-German optician, was born at Loxten, Westphalia, the son of a landowner.

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Lemaire Island

Lemaire Island is an island long and wide, lying west of Duthiers Point off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

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List of geodesists

This is a list of geodesists, people who made notable contributions to geodesy, whether or not geodesy was their primary field.

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Maxar Technologies

Maxar Technologies Inc. is a space technology company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, United States, specializing in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar, and on-orbit servicing satellites, satellite products, and related services.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Paradise Harbour

Paradise Harbour is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz Point. Andvord Bay and Paradise Harbour are Bays of Graham Land and Danco Coast.

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Paul Rudolph (physicist)

Paul Rudolph (14 November 1858 – 8 March 1935) was a German physicist who designed the first anastigmatic lens while working for Carl Zeiss.

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Photic zone

The photic zone (or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton to perform photosynthesis.

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Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.

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Polar Geospatial Center

The Polar Geospatial Center is a research center at the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs.

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Polish Antarctic Expedition

The Polish Antarctic Expedition to the A. B. Dobrowolski Polar Station was conducted by a team of doctors, geophysicists, and geomorphologists between 1978 and 1979.

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Retreat of glaciers since 1850

The retreat of glaciers since 1850 is well documented and is one of the effects of climate change.

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Rolf Andvord (consul)

Rolf Thorsteinson Andvord (15 December 1847 – 26 October 1906) was a Norwegian ship-owner.

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Rongé Island

Rongé Island is a high, rugged island long, the largest island of the group which forms the west side of Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Andvord Bay and Rongé Island are Danco Coast.

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Spherical aberration

In optics, spherical aberration (SA) is a type of aberration found in optical systems that have elements with spherical surfaces.

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T. W. Bagshawe

Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (18 April 1901 – 1974) was an explorer, museum curator and folklorist.

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Thomas Grubb

Thomas Grubb (4 August 1800 – 16 September 1878) was an Irish optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company.

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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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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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See also

Bays of Graham Land

References

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

Also known as Almirante Ice Fringe, Arago Glacier, Bagshawe Glacier, Beneden Head, Blue Icefalls, Dallmeyer Peak, Duthiers Point, Forbes Point, Grubb Glacier, Henryk Cove, Lester Cove, Moser Glacier, Mount Hoegh, Mount Inverleith, Mount Theodore, Mount Tsotsorkov, Rudolph Glacier, Steinheil Point.