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Signy Island

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Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 91 relations: Adélie penguin, Andreaea Plateau, Antarctic fur seal, Antarctic prion, Antarctic tern, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Atlantic Ocean, Bay, Biology, Bird colony, BirdLife International, Black-bellied storm petrel, Borge Bay, Bothy, British Antarctic Survey, Brown skua, Caloplaca, Cape petrel, Chinstrap penguin, Compañía Argentina de Pesca, Confusion Island, Coronation Island, Cryptogam Ridge, Deschampsia antarctica, Discovery Investigations, Elephant seal, Everson Ridge, Factory ship, Fur seal, Fyr Channel, Garnet Hill, Gentoo penguin, Gneiss Hills, Hauling-out, Imperial shag, Important Bird Area, Jane Col, Jane Peak, Jensen Ridge, Kelp gull, Leopard seal, Limestone Valley, Limnology, List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, List of lighthouses in Antarctica, McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands), Meltwater, Microbiologist, Moe Island, ... Expand index (41 more) »

  2. Islands of the South Orkney Islands
  3. Lighthouses in Antarctica
  4. Whaling stations

Adélie penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found.

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Andreaea Plateau

Andreaea Plateau is a small plateau with an average elevation of, located southwest of Robin Peak, Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Antarctic fur seal

The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae.

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Antarctic prion

The Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) also known as the dove prion, or totorore in Māori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.

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Antarctic tern

The Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata) is a seabird in the family Laridae.

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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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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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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Bird colony

A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Black-bellied storm petrel

The black-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta tropica) is a species of seabird in the family Oceanitidae.

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Borge Bay

Borge Bay is a large, irregularly-shaped bay that dominates the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.

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Bothy

A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. Signy Island and British Antarctic Survey are British Antarctic Territory.

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Brown skua

The brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as the Antarctic skua, subantarctic skua, southern great skua, southern skua, or hākoakoa (Māori), is a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves further north when not breeding.

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Caloplaca

Caloplaca is a lichen genus comprising a number of distinct species.

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Cape petrel

The Cape petrel (Daption capense), also called the Cape pigeon, pintado petrel, or Cape fulmar, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.

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Chinstrap penguin

The chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) is a species of penguin that inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Oceans.

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Compañía Argentina de Pesca

Compañía Argentina de Pesca (Argentine Fishing Company) was initiated by the British-Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl A. Larsen, and established on 29 February 1904 by three foreign residents of Buenos Aires: the Norwegian consul P. Christophersen, H.H. Schlieper (US national), and E.

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Confusion Island

Confusion Island is an island long at the west side of the entrance to Clowes Bay, off the south side of Signy Island. Signy Island and Confusion Island are islands of the South Orkney Islands.

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Coronation Island

Coronation Island is the largest of the South Orkney Islands, long and from wide. Signy Island and Coronation Island are islands of the South Orkney Islands.

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Cryptogam Ridge

Cryptogam Ridge is an east–west ridge lying south of Cummings Cove in Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

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Deschampsia antarctica

Deschampsia antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).

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Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean.

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Elephant seal

Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.

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Everson Ridge

Everson Ridge is a ridge extending from Jebsen Point to Tioga Hill on Signy Island.

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Factory ship

A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales.

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Fyr Channel

Fyr Channel is a channel wide between the southwest end of Signy Island and Moe Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Garnet Hill

Garnet Hill is a rocky hill, high, rising above the east side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Gentoo penguin

The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species (or possibly a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus).

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Gneiss Hills

The Gneiss Hills are two prominent hills, high, at the west side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica.

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Hauling-out

Hauling out is a behaviour associated with pinnipeds (true seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses) temporarily leaving the water.

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Imperial shag

The imperial shag or imperial cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Jane Col

Jane Col is a col to the west of Jane Peak at the head of Limestone Valley on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands.

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Jane Peak

Jane Peak is a conspicuous nunatak, high, standing west of the northern part of Borge Bay on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Jensen Ridge

Jensen Ridge is a curving ridge running eastward from Foca Point toward Jane Col on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands.

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Kelp gull

The kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull that breeds on coasts and islands through much of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Leopard seal

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also referred to as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal).

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Limestone Valley

Limestone Valley is a valley extending northwest from Cemetery Bay, Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Limnology

Limnology is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems.

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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.

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List of lighthouses in Antarctica

This is a list of lighthouses in Antarctica. Signy Island and list of lighthouses in Antarctica are lighthouses in Antarctica.

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McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands)

McLeod Glacier is a glacier long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.

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Meltwater

Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans.

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Microbiologist

A microbiologist (from Greek μῑκρος) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes.

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Moe Island

Moe Island is an island long in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica, separated from the south-west end of Signy Island by Fyr Channel. Signy Island and Moe Island are important Bird Areas of Antarctica, islands of the South Orkney Islands, penguin colonies and seabird colonies.

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Moraine Valley

Moraine Valley is a valley filled with morainic debris, long, which drains north into Elephant Flats on the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.

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Moss Braes

The Moss Braes are west-facing slopes (braes) situated west of Robin Peak on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.

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Normanna Strait

Normanna Strait is a strait 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide between Signy Island and Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Oliphant Islands

Oliphant Islands is a group of small ice-free islands and rocks lying south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast extremity of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Signy Island and Oliphant Islands are islands of the South Orkney Islands.

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Orwell Glacier

Orwell Glacier is a small glacier, less than 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, which descends steeply from the south slopes of Snow Hills and terminates in 20 m ice cliffs along the south margin of Elephant Flats in the east part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Oslo

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

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Paternoster Valley

Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island.

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Peninsula

A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.

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Petter Sørlle

Petter Sørlle (February 16, 1884 – May 29, 1933) was a Norwegian whaling captain and inventor.

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Robin Peak

Robin Peak is a sharply defined rocky summit (270 m) which is the northernmost peak on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC).

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Sea cave

A sea cave, is also known as a littoral cave, a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.

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Signy Research Station

Signy Research Station (originally Station H) is an Antarctic research base on Signy Island, run by the British Antarctic Survey. Signy Island and Signy Research Station are British Antarctic Territory.

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Skua Terrace

Skua Terrace is a terrace in the northwest part of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, extending north-south from the vicinity of Spindrift Rocks to the vicinity of Express Cove.

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Snow Hills

Snow Hills is a two snow-covered hills, one 240 m, the other 265 m and 0.25 nautical miles (0.5 km) to the west.

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Snow petrel

The snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) is the only member of the genus Pagodroma. It is one of only three birds that have been seen at the Geographic South Pole, along with the Antarctic petrel and the south polar skua, which has the most southerly breeding sites of any bird, inland in Antarctica.

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Snowy sheathbill

The snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), also known as the greater sheathbill, pale-faced sheathbill, and paddy, is one of two species of sheathbill.

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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. Signy Island and south Orkney Islands are Argentine Antarctica and British Antarctic Territory.

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South polar skua

The south polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae.

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Southern giant petrel

The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans.

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Spindrift

Spindrift (more rarely spoondrift) is the spray blown from cresting waves during a gale.

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Spindrift Col

Spindrift Col is a col between hills in north-central Signy Island, 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southeast of Spindrift Rocks.

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Spirogyra

Spirogyra (common names include water silk, mermaid's tresses, and blanket weed) is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales, named for the helical or spiral arrangement of the chloroplasts that is characteristic of the genus.

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Starfish

Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.

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Strombus Ridge

Strombus Ridge is a ridge curving eastward from Thulla Point toward Jane Col on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

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Styx

In Greek mythology, Styx (Στύξ; lit. "Shuddering"), also called the River Styx, is a goddess and river of the Underworld.

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Subantarctic

The subantarctic zone is a region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region.

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Three Lakes Valley (South Orkney Islands)

Three Lakes Valley is a low valley containing three freshwater lakes, extending from the vicinity of Elephant Flats northward to Stygian Cove on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Tilbrook Hill

Tilbrook Hill is a hill rising to 70 m between Hillier Moss and Caloplaca Cove in southeast Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

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Tioga Hill

Tioga Hill is a rounded summit, 290 m, standing at the west side the head of McLeod Glacier on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

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Tioga Lake (South Orkney Islands)

Tioga Lake is a small lake in the South Orkney Islands.

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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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Usnea Ridge

Usnea Ridge is a ridge at an elevation of 100–160 m, extending north-northwest from Jane Peak to Spindrift Col in central Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

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Weddell seal

The Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.

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Whalers Bluff

Whalers Bluff is a bluff rising sharply to 210 m east of Port Jebsen, Signy Island, in the South Orkney 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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Wilson's storm petrel

Wilson's storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

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See also

Islands of the South Orkney Islands

Lighthouses in Antarctica

Whaling stations

References

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

Also known as Amos Lake (Antarctica), Berry Head (Antarctica), Bothy Lake, Caloplaca Cove, Clowes Bay, Cummings Cove, Deschampsia Point, Express Cove, Filer Haven, Foca Cove, Foca Point, Fur Seal Cove, Gourlay Peninsula, Gourlay Point, Hillier Moss, Hydrurga Cove, Jebsen Point, Jebsen Rocks, Lenton Point, Light Lake, Lovegrove Point, Moyes Point, North Point, Signy Island, Observation Bluff, Paal Harbor, Paal Harbour, Pageant Point, Pandemonium Point, Pantomime Point, Pinder Gully, Polynesia Point, Port Jebsen, Porteous Point, Powell Rock, Rethval Point, Richard Point, Rootes Point, Rusty Bluff, Spindrift Rocks, Spirogyra Lake, Starfish Cove, Stygian Cove, Tern Cove, The Wallows, Thulla Cove, Thulla Point, Tranquil Lake, Twisted Lake, Williams Haven.

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