• The Hydrographer Islands are a prominent group of small islands in the bay just south of Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were photographed...
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  • Island is a small island 9.3 kilometres (5 nmi) north of the mouth of Rayner Glacier and 17 kilometres (9 nmi) southwest of the Hydrographer Islands along...
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    USS Hydrographer (AGS-2), briefly classified PY-30 before commissioning, was built in 1928 by the Spear Engine Works in Norfolk, Virginia, and operated...
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  • This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the...
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  • Thumbnail for Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ˈkoʊkəs/; Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu...
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    Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands (Filipino: Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin Chinese: 南沙群島/南沙群岛; pinyin: Nánshā Qúndǎo; Malay: Kepulauan Spratly; Vietnamese:...
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    Tuvalu (redirect from Ellice Islands)
    Ellice Islands by English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. In the late 19th century, Great Britain claimed control over the Ellice Islands, designating...
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    the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982...
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  • List of archipelagos (category Lists of islands)
    Seahorse Islands Bear Island Canadian Arctic Archipelago Akvitlak Islands Arvalik Islands Astronomical Society Islands Bate Islands Belcher Islands Berens...
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  • Thumbnail for Hydrographer of the Navy
    The Hydrographer of the Navy is the principal hydrographical Royal Naval appointment. From 1795 until 2001, the post was responsible for the production...
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  • Antarctica, lying south of Dingle Dome and immediately east of the Hydrographer Islands. They were sighted in October 1957 by an Australian National Antarctic...
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    The Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands (simplified Chinese: 西沙群岛; traditional Chinese: 西沙群島; pinyin: xīshā qúndǎo; lit. 'West Sand Archipelago')...
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    work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay was published, the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands in the Ellice Island group, which is...
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    The Traversay Islands (Spanish: Archipiélago Marqués de Traverse) are a group of three islands—Zavodovski, Leskov and Visokoi—at the northern end of the...
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    reserve of Russia. This island is named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky's father Andrey Vilkitsky, while the Vilkitsky Islands in the Laptev sea...
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    The history of the Pacific Islands covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. In Cook Islands Māori pre-history, Chieftains from present...
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  • Thumbnail for Hayman Island
    James Cook first charted these waters on his voyage in 1770. In 1866, hydrographer Commander George Nares gave Hayman its name in honour of Thomas Hayman...
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    The Austral Islands (French: Îles Australes, officially Archipel des Australes; Tahitian: Tuha'a Pae) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia...
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    of Hall Island known as Hydrographer Bay and a smaller one west of the Littrov Peninsula called Bukhta Surovaya. Hall Island is located very close to...
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    Niue (redirect from List of islands of Niue)
    Primary Industries. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023. "NZ Navy Hydrographers get to work mapping Niue's unique landscape". New Zealand Defence Force...
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    Francis Beaufort (category Hydrographers of the Royal Navy)
    FRAS MRIA (/ˈboʊfərt/; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer, the creator of the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale, and a naval...
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    but arguments from Juan Bautista Muñoz; Captain Alexander B. Becher, a hydrographer in the Royal Navy; Rear Adm. Joseph B. Murdock of the U.S. Navy; Richard...
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    Royal Navy hydrographer Captain George Henry Richards was tasked with mapping the Southern Gulf Islands in 1859, and decided to name the island in honour...
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    of the Royal Navy. He became a distinguished hydrographer during his career and served as Hydrographer of the Navy. Evans, son of John Evans, a master...
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    Elobey Grande (category Islands of Equatorial Guinea)
    Agulhas, islands in the Bight of Biafra, Ascension Island, Saint Helena Island, Tristan da Cunha Group, and Gough Island. Volume II. Hydrographer of the...
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    Admiralty Hydrographer) decided to switch the names around, likely to preserve the east-west naming sequence with the present-day Friday Island and the...
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    Rotch, British Admiralty hydrographer Thomas Hurd, and John Miers, publisher of the first chart of the South Shetland Islands based on the work of William...
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    Boris Vilkitsky (category Russian hydrographers)
    (22 March (3 April N.S.) 1885, Pulkovo – 6 March 1961) was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor. He was the son of Andrey Ippolitovich Vilkitsky. Born in...
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    Funafuti, was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands, after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The...
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  • George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The approved name is a translation of the Russian "Bukhta Gidrografov" (bay of the hydrographers), applied...
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