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51 relations: Adrien de Gerlache, Alice Creek, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Anvers Island, Belgian Antarctic Expedition, Bob Island, Breakwater Island, British Antarctic Survey, Cape Errera, Chilean Navy, Comer Range, Damoy Point, Dayné Peak, Deception Island, Dorian Bay, Doumer Island, Eduard Dallmann, Edward Bransfield, Eivind Astrup, Flandres Bay, French Antarctic Expedition, Fridtjof Island, Gerlache Strait, Goudier Island, Greenland, Headland, Henry Foster (scientist), Hope Bay, Important Bird Area, Instituto Antártico Argentino, Jabet Peak, Jougla Point, List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Nemo Peak (Antarctica), Neumayer Channel, Nipple Peak, Noble Peak, Norway, Palmer Archipelago, Peltier Channel, Port Lockroy, Pursuit Point, Py Point, Robert Peary, RV Belgica (1884), Savoia Peak, South Bay (Doumer Island), Tombstone Hill (Palmer Archipelago), ... Expand index (1 more) »
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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Alice Creek
Alice Creek is a cove forming the southernmost portion of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago 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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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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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. Wiencke Island and Anvers Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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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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Bob Island
Bob Island is a rocky island long and high, lying southeast of Cape Errera, on Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the coast of Antarctica. Wiencke Island and Bob Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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Breakwater Island
Breakwater Island is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago with a line of rocks extending in a southwest arc from it, lying opposite Nipple Peak, off the east side of Wiencke Island. Wiencke Island and Breakwater Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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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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Cape Errera
Cape Errera is a cape which forms the southwest end of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces.
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Comer Range
The Comer Range is an Antarctican mountain range, long, running southwest to northeast and rising to 600 meters to the west of Harbour Glacier in Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago.
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Damoy Point
Damoy Point is a headland west-northwest of Flag Point, the northern entrance point to the harbour of Port Lockroy, on the western side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
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Dayné Peak
Dayné Peak is a distinctive pyramidal peak, high, immediately northeast of Cape Errera, the southwest tip of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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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.
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Dorian Bay
Dorian Bay is a cove on the northwest side of Wiencke Island, 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) east-northeast of Damoy Point, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
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Doumer Island
Doumer Island is an island long and wide, surmounted by a snow-covered pyramidal peak,, lying between the south portions of Anvers Island and Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Wiencke Island and Doumer Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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Eduard Dallmann
Eduard Dallmann (11 March 1830 – 23 December 1896) was a German whaler, trader, and Polar explorer.
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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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Eivind Astrup
Eivind Astrup (17 September 1871 – 27 December 1895) was a Norwegian explorer and writer.
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Flandres Bay
Flandres Bay is a large bay lying between Cape Renard and Cape Willems, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
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French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
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Fridtjof Island
Fridtjof Island is an island lying northeast of Vázquez Island, off the southeast side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Wiencke Island and Fridtjof Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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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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Goudier Island
Goudier Island is a small island with an appearance of bare, polished rock, lying north of Jougla Point in the harbour of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Wiencke Island and Goudier Island are islands of the Palmer Archipelago.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.
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Henry Foster (scientist)
Henry Foster (1797 – 5 February 1831) was a British naval officer and scientist who took part in expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic, and made various notable scientific observations.
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Hope Bay
Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.
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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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Instituto Antártico Argentino
The Instituto Antártico Argentino (Argentine Antarctic Institute, abbrevriated IAA) is the Argentine federal agency in charge of orientating, controlling, addressing and performing scientific and technical research and studies in the Antarctic.
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Jabet Peak
Jabet Peak is a peak in the Comer Range, high, which marks the southwestern end of the serrate ridge northeast of Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
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Jougla Point
Jougla Point is a point forming the west side of the entrance to Alice Creek in Port Lockroy, lying on the west side of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
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Nemo Peak (Antarctica)
Nemo Peak is a conspicuous peak, 865 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Nipple Peak in the north part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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Neumayer Channel
Neumayer Channel is a channel 16 miles (26 km) long in a NE-SW direction and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide, separating Anvers Island from Wiencke Island and Doumer Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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Nipple Peak
Nipple Peak is a peak standing north-east of Channel Glacier in the northern part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
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Noble Peak
Noble Peak is a peak in the Comer Range, 720 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Lockley Point and marking the northeast end of a prominent ridge on the northwest side of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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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.
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Peltier Channel
Peltier Channel is a channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, in a NE-SW direction, separating Doumer and Wiencke Island Islands to the south of Port Lockroy, in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Port Lockroy
Port Lockroy is a bay forming a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Pursuit Point
Pursuit Point is a mostly ice-covered peninsula on south-eastern Wiencke Island, one of the larger islands of the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
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Py Point
Py Point is a point forming the south extremity of Doumer Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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RV Belgica (1884)
Belgica was a barque-rigged steamship that was built in 1884 by Christian Brinch Jørgensen at Svelvik, Norway as the whaler Patria.
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Savoia Peak
Savoia Peak is a peak, 1,415 m, at the northeast end of Sierra DuFief, a mountain range in the southwest part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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South Bay (Doumer Island)
South Bay is a 1.7 km wide bay indenting for 2.8 km between Cape Kemp and Py Point on the south-west coast of Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
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Tombstone Hill (Palmer Archipelago)
Tombstone Hill is a hill which rises to 50 m close east-northeast of Damoy Point, Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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References
Also known as Cape Astrup, Principal Point.