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Lamplugh Island

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Lamplugh Island is an ice-capped island, long, lying north of Whitmer Peninsula, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 15 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, David Glacier, Discovery Expedition, Drygalski Ice Tongue, Ernest Shackleton, George William Lamplugh, Mount Joyce, Nimrod Expedition, Prince Albert Mountains, Robert Falcon Scott, Ross Sea, Saratoga Table, United States Geological Survey, Victoria Land, Whitmer Peninsula.

  2. Islands of Victoria 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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David Glacier

The David Glacier is a glacier over long, flowing east from the polar plateau through the Prince Albert Mountains to the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Discovery Expedition

The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).

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Drygalski Ice Tongue

The Drygalski Ice Tongue, Drygalski Barrier, or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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George William Lamplugh

George William Lamplugh (8 April 1859 – 9 October 1926) was a British geologist.

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Mount Joyce

Mount Joyce is a prominent, dome-shaped mountain, high, standing northwest of Mount Howard in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Lamplugh Island and mount Joyce are Scott Coast.

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Nimrod Expedition

The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent.

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Prince Albert Mountains

The Prince Albert Mountains are a major mountain group in Antarctica over long. Lamplugh Island and Prince Albert Mountains are Scott Coast.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.

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Saratoga Table

The Saratoga Table is a high, flat, snow-covered plateau, long and wide, standing just south of Kent Gap and Lexington Table in the southern Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica.

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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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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.

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Whitmer Peninsula

The Whitmer Peninsula is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Lamplugh Island and Whitmer Peninsula are Scott Coast.

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See also

Islands of Victoria Land

References

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

Also known as Cape Irizar, Cheetham Ice Tongue, Clarke Glacier (Victoria Land), Davis Glacier, Lewandowski Point, McDaniel Nunatak, Mount George Murray, Mount Stephen (Antarctica), Prior Island, Sawyer Nunatak.