Biscoe Bay is a bay which indents the southwest coast of Anvers Island immediately north of Biscoe Point, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. First...
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Biscoe may refer to: Biscoe (surname) Tyndale Biscoe School, CMS Tyndale Biscoe Memorial High School in Srinagar India Antarctica Biscoe Bay Biscoe Point...
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during the Partition of India, and they moved to Sandy Bay in Hobart when she was nine. Biscoe won a classical singing scholarship after making an unscheduled...
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small boat refuges for parties working between nearby Palmer Station and Biscoe Bay, and therefore form "stepping stones" for coastal trips. Named by Palmer...
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boarded the frigate HMS Burghead Bay and, with an accompanying detachment of marines, escorted the John Biscoe back to Hope Bay, where they arrived on 4 February...
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in the Palmer Archipelago. This is the tallest mountain visible from Biscoe Bay, near the south end of the island's Osterrieth Range which also includes...
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2012. The name "Biscoe Bay" for this location does not appear on modern maps. The area appears to have been subsumed into Sulzberger Bay, named by Richard...
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Biscoe Point is a rocky point forming the south-eastern side of Biscoe Bay, immediately north of Access Point on the south side of Anvers Island, in the...
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this island from Anvers Island is a shortcut from the station to the Biscoe Bay area by water. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands...
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8 km wide bay indenting for 1.7 km the west coast of Lavoisier Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is formed as a result of the retreat of Lavoisier...
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gave the name "Presqu'ile de Biscoe" to a small peninsula on the SE side of Biscoe Bay, adding to the honours for John Biscoe – who may have landed in the...
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after Chris Elliott. "John Biscoe". Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 4 March 2023. "RRS John Biscoe at Halley Bay". Z-Fids. Archived from the...
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Island and Northstar Island in Marguerite Bay. They were charted by the Hydrographic Survey Unit from RRS John Biscoe in 1966, and were named for Petty Officer...
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coast of Krogh Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is entered east of Edholm Point and west of Kuvikal Point. The bay is named after the ancient...
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Island in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is entered east of Kusev Point and west of Plakuder Point. The bay is named after the ancient...
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Renaud Island (redirect from Zubov Bay)
Renaud Island is an ice-covered island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica, 40 km (25 mi) long and from 6.4 to 16.1 km (4 to 10 mi) (average 11.3 km (7 mi))...
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heads of a British Antarctic Survey team unloading supplies from the John Biscoe. The Argentines later extended a diplomatic apology, saying that there had...
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Hewitt Bay (64°49′00″S 63°47′00″W / 64.81667°S 63.78333°W / -64.81667; -63.78333) is a rectangular bay 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long between Biscoe Point...
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Admiralty Bay Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km (5 mi) wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of...
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Mount Biscoe is a distinctive black peak, the easternmost and largest of two ice-free rock massifs located 6 km south-west of Cape Ann on the coast of...
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Cape Evans (redirect from North Bay (Ross Island))
Ross Island, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay. The cape was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04...
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Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey team unloading supplies from the John Biscoe to rebuild its damaged base. Following the Argentine show of force, the...
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Anvers Island (redirect from D'Abnour Bay)
largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien...
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Adelaide Island was discovered in 1832 by a British expedition under John Biscoe. The island was first surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910)...
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Cape Geology (redirect from Botany Bay (Victoria Land))
Geology is a low, gravel-covered point marking the western limit of Botany Bay, in the southern part of Granite Harbour, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was...
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HMNZS Endeavour (1944) (redirect from RRS John Biscoe (1944))
(FIDS), she was renamed John Biscoe. After her first season of resupplying the FIDS bases in Stonington Island and Hope Bay, her hull was sheathed in 3...
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constructed near here and named after the bay. The original ice bay was transitory and no longer exists although other bays in the same area keep reforming and...
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Northeast Glacier (redirect from Back Bay (Antarctica))
Hydrographic Survey Unit from RRS John Biscoe in 1966. Named for Arthur B.D. Joubert, third officer of John Biscoe and officer of the watch when the rock...
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States. Vol. 2. Hurd & Everts. pp. 487–490. Crowell, Edward Payson and Biscoe, Walter Stanley (1883). Biographical Record of the Alumni of Amherst College...
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Armstrong Reef, Biscoe Islands Armstrong, Santa Fe Armstrong, Victoria Armstrong, British Columbia Armstrong, Ontario Armstrong, Thunder Bay District, Ontario...
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