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    Operation Tabarin was the code name for a secret British expedition to the Antarctic during World War Two, operational 1943–46. Conducted by the Admiralty...
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    Germany, Chile, Argentina, and the United States, Britain launched Operation Tabarin in 1943. Its objective was to establish a permanent presence and assert...
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    Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States...
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  • was known as the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey until 1962. Operation Tabarin was a small British expedition in 1943 to establish permanently occupied...
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    explorer. He was leader of the World War 2 British Antarctic Expedition Operation Tabarin during its first year, 1943–1945. Marr was born in Cushnie, Aberdeenshire...
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    a Doctor of Science in 1942. In the two years she was involved in Operation Tabarin, a covert World War II mission to Antarctica, she identified and documented...
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  • Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56...
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    Marr established a short-lived base on Deception Island as part of Operation Tabarin, which was carried out during the Second World War to deny safe anchorages...
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  • The Tabarin Peninsula (63°32′S 57°0′W / 63.533°S 57.000°W / -63.533; -57.000 (Tabarin Peninsula)) is a peninsula 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)...
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  • formerly known as Bal Tabarin Operation Tabarin, the codename under which the British Antarctic Survey originated in 1944 Tabarin Peninsula in Antarctica...
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  • (1945–1946), chartered for the secret British Antarctic expedition, Operation Tabarin. Sheppard was born January 31, 1897 in St. John's, NL, the oldest...
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    Antarctica during World War II Esoteric Nazism List of Antarctic expeditions Operation Highjump Yamato Yukihara McGonigal, David, Antarctica, frances lincoln...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    Germany, Chile, Argentina, and the United States, Britain launched Operation Tabarin in 1943. Its objective was to establish a permanent presence and assert...
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    explorations, the British Admiralty and Colonial Office launched Operation Tabarin in 1943 to reassert British territorial claims against Argentine and...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    Allied whalers Operation Tabarin (United Kingdom, 1944–45) Operation Highjump (United States, 1946–47) Base Soberanía (Chile, 1947) Operation Windmill (United...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    Internal Waters. The declaration came after the successful completion of Operation Nunalivut (Inuktitut for "the land is ours"), which was an expedition...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    create a territorial claim (New Swabia). In 1943 the British launched Operation Tabarin, to establish a presence on the continent. The chief reason was to...
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    UK-APC after Doctor Eric H. Back, Lieutenant RNVR, medical officer on Operation Tabarin at Port Lockroy, 1943-44, and Hope Bay, 1944–45. Central features...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    records in her first years of operation and traveled to locations previously beyond the limits of submarines. In operation, she revealed a number of limitations...
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    1940. In 1943, the British Admiralty and Colonial Office launched Operation Tabarin with the goal of asserting British territorial claims and establishing...
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    between 1911 and 1931. During World War II, the British military Operation Tabarin established the Port Lockroy Station A on tiny Goudier Island in the...
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    opened its first station at McMurdo on February 16, 1956, as part of Operation Deep Freeze. The base, built by the U.S. Navy Seabees, was initially designated...
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    Rymill New Swabia Ritscher Operation Tabarin Marr Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill Ketchum Ronne Expedition...
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    and Woodman again acted as expedition historian and search coordinator. Operations were conducted from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Laurier. Approximately...
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    chose instead to scuttle the ship rather than face the Royal Navy. Operation Tabarin, an expedition to the Antarctic, was mounted from the islands during...
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