2020. This article incorporates public domain material from "Turner Island (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological...
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Turner Island may refer to: Antarctica Turner Island (Antarctica) Canada Turner Island (Queens), in Nova Scotia Turner Island (Halifax), near Halifax...
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Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Penguin Island was sighted in January 1820 by a British expedition under Edward...
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Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded...
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Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate...
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Antarctic (redirect from Antarctica (region))
North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and other island territories located on the Antarctic Plate or south...
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Magnetic Island is a small island in the Donskiye Islands group in the Donskiye Islands group lying 500 m north-east of Turner Island, off the Breidnes...
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The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. The continent is also extremely dry (it is a desert), averaging 166 mm (6.5 in) of precipitation per...
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Area (IBA), comprising Magnetic, Turner, Waterhouse, Lugg, Boyd and Bluff Islands, along with the intervening islands and marine area. The site was designated...
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volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall land area is 372 km2...
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Heywood Island is the largest of the islands off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is named after Captain...
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mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Petermann Island is off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula...
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Waterhouse Island is an island in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. It lies just SSW of Lugg Island, and about...
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Gregory Island is a small ice-free island lying just off the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, 5 km (3.1 mi) north-east of Cape Archer and 8 km...
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Cockburn Island is an oval island 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) long, consisting of a high plateau with steep slopes surmounted on the northwest side by a pyramidal...
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Cameron Island is a small island just north of Hailstorm Island, in the Swain Islands, Antarctica. This region was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy...
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The Danger Islands (63°25′S 54°40′W / 63.417°S 54.667°W / -63.417; -54.667 (Danger Islands)) are a group of islands lying 13 nautical miles (24 km;...
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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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Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. It has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International...
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north coast. Berkner Island is about 150 km (93 mi) west of Luitpold Coast, Coats Land, the closest mainland of Eastern Antarctica. The Hemmen Ice Rise...
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2018. "Snow Hill Island". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013. Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's...
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Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle (1884–1933)...
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subantarctic islands List of volcanoes in Antarctica "Paulet". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. "Geological Map of James Ross Island" (PDF)...
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everywhere on Earth, and while Antarctica is less vulnerable to it than any other continent, climate change in Antarctica has been observed. Since 1959...
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List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S Livingston Island Saddleback Ridge SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica "Half Moon Island". BirdLife data zone:...
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Inexpressible Island is a small, rocky island in Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Previously uninhabited, the Chinese Qinling research station...
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Hughes Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Murray Island is also known as Bluff Island. It lies at the southwest end of Hughes Bay, on...
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3 km; 5.8 mi) south-east of Cape McCormick, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Possession Islands were named by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, in commemoration...
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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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north-western end of Siple Island, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It is one of the three pieces of land closest to the Oceanic Pole of...
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