The Cape-Pigeon Rocks are twin rocky promontories on the western side of Watt Bay, 6 kilometres (3 nmi) south of Garnet Point. They were discovered by...
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the west part of Watt Bay, 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) southeast of Cape-Pigeon Rocks. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under...
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Dream Island is an island lying 0.7 km (0.43 mi) south-east of Cape Monaco, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in Wylie Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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Cape Adare Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria...
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in width, with a maximum length of 37 km (23 mi), between Cape Freeman in the north and Cape Smyth in the south. It is mostly covered by ice and snow throughout...
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Pigeon Point Light Station or Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1871 to guide ships on the Pacific coast of California. It is the tallest...
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offshore. Brown Bluff is a one-half-mile-high (0.80 km) cliff of volcanic rocks consisting of a tuya or moberg, which is a volcano erupted under an icecap...
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Hope Bay (redirect from Jagged Rocks)
63°24′S 56°59′W / 63.400°S 56.983°W / -63.400; -56.983. A group of jagged rocks lying near the center of Hut Cove in the east part of Hope Bay. First charted...
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Snow Hill Island (redirect from Cape Lázara)
sedimentary rocks with abundant fossils of ammonites, gastropods, and bivalves. There are numerous basalt dikes that project up through the sedimentary rocks near...
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Cape Crozier Cape Crozier (77°31′S 169°24′E / 77.517°S 169.400°E / -77.517; 169.400) is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica. It was...
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Signy Island (redirect from Jebsen Rocks)
Point, for which the cove is named. Also associated are the Jebsen Rocks, a chain of rocks which extend 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) in an east–west direction...
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Murray Island (Antarctica) (redirect from Cape Murray (Graham Land))
from the mainland, proving its insularity. It was named in association with Cape Murray, the seaward extremity of the island. A 98 hectares (240 acres) ice-free...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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Duroch Islands (redirect from Acuña Rocks)
islands and rocks which extend over an area of about 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi), centred about 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) off Cape Legoupil...
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Cape Denison Cape Denison is a rocky point at the head of Commonwealth Bay in George V Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian...
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Cape Washington is a prominent cape, 275 m (902 ft), marking the south extremity of the cove which separates Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria...
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Avian Island (redirect from Skeen Rocks)
significance. To the south are Skeen Rocks, (67°47′S 68°54′W / 67.783°S 68.900°W / -67.783; -68.900), two rocks which were named by the United Kingdom...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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Trinity Island (redirect from Hydrodist Rocks)
Island in the South Shetland Islands, and 10.3 km (6 mi) north-northwest of Cape Andreas on the Antarctic Peninsula. The island was named by Otto Nordenskiöld...
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of chinstrap penguins, as well as over 18,000 pairs of southern fulmars. Cape Plenty List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands "Gibbs Island East". BirdLife...
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Smith Peninsula (redirect from Cape Fiske)
to Keller Inlet. The Hutton Mountains are to the north of the peninsula. Cape Fiske is the easternmost point. The Smith Peninsula was photographed from...
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Cambria, of New Bedford, Apr. 29, 1849, Nicholson Whaling Collection; Cape Horn Pigeon, of New Bedford, Apr. 19, 1892, Kendall Whaling Museum. On 13 December...
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wintered at Cape Adare. In 1912, that group (composed of six men in total), began the long journey homewards and began making their way to Cape Evans (via...
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pairs). Other birds recorded nesting at the site are southern giant petrels Cape petrels, snowy sheathbills, kelp gulls, Antarctic terns and skuas. Southern...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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Vai (Crete) (section Pigeon rocks)
headland. Visible is the northern headland, pigeon rocks off its coast, and Cape Sidero in the distance. Pigeon rocks from the shore. Psili ammos from the south...
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Possession Islands (redirect from Kristensen Rocks)
71.933°S 171.167°E / -71.933; 171.167) are a group of small islands and rocks extending over an area of about 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi), lying...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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Adélie Land Cape Bienvenue Cape Jules Curzon Islands Empereur Island Géologie Archipelago George V Land Cape Denison Cape Hunter Cape-Pigeon Rocks Greater...
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