Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Palmer Archipelago This article incorporates public domain material from "Lion Island". Geographic Names Information...
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uninhabited island in the River Thames, England Lion Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica Lion Island, Géologie Archipelago, Antarctica Lion Island, Victoria...
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Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island 61 km (38 miles) long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago...
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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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between Lion Island and the southeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition...
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Island Harwood Island Micalo Island Palmers Island Thorny Island Warregah Island Yargai Island Clark Island, in Sydney Harbour Cockatoo Island, in Sydney...
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Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island 24 km (15 mi) long and 10 km (6 mi) wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica...
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Félicie Point (category Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago)
point which forms the south end of Lion Island, lying immediately east of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It was charted and named by the Belgian...
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Hippolyte Point (category Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago)
point which marks the northeast end of Lion Island, lying immediately east of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was charted and named...
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was used as their operational base from 1820 to 1821. Palmer met Bellingshausen close to the island in Jan. 1821, during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition...
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Captain George Palmer, during the search for the Matoaka, placed the islands at 47°46'24" South 178°56'45" East. Palmer also annexed the islands for New Zealand...
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is named after Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of Deception Island in the sloop Hero in November...
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Rosenthal Islands are a group of about islands fringing the west coast of Anvers Island, 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Cape Monaco, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica...
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Pursuit Point (category Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago)
ice-covered peninsula on south-eastern Wiencke Island, one of the larger islands of the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The peninsula has been identified...
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Berkner Island (also known as the Berkner Ice Rise or as Hubley Island) is an Antarctic ice rise, where bedrock below sea level has caused the surrounding...
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Biscoe Point (category Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago)
immediately north of Access Point on the south side of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste...
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south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Litchfield Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS)...
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Gardner Island is a largely ice-free island which lies about 3 km west of Broad Peninsula in the southern Vestfold Hills, in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen...
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between Cape Kemp and Py Point on the south-west coast of Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition...
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the east side of the entrance to Fournier Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The island was first shown on the Ludwig Friederichsen map of 1895...
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Sturge Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies 25 km (16 mi) southeast...
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Anacapa is the smallest of the northern islands of the Channel Islands archipelago, and is within the Channel Islands National Park. It is 9 miles (7.8 nmi;...
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Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Petermann Island is off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago,...
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Penguin Island (also known as Georges Island, Île Pingouin, Isla Pingüino, and Penguin Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica...
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Gibbs Island (Russian: остров Рожнова) lies 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. James Weddell, whose...
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Joubin Islands are a group of small islands lying 6 kilometres (3 nmi) south-west of Cape Monaco, Anvers Island, at the south-western end of the Palmer Archipelago...
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metres (4,150 ft). The island was discovered in December 1821, in the course of the joint cruise by Captain Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer, and...
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Eastern Dallmann Bay Antarctic Specially Protected Area (category Bays of the Palmer Archipelago)
adjacent to the north-western and northern coasts of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. With an area of about 676 km2 it covers shallow...
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Island Palmer Archipelago Padpadak Island Abbott Island Anvers Island Auguste Island Bills Island Brabant Island Casabianca Island Cobalcescou Island...
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Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It lies some 5 km to the south-east of the United States' Palmer Station in Arthur Harbour on Anvers Island. It was...
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