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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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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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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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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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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Operation Deep Freeze is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed...
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McMurdo Station (section Scientific diving operations)
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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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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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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Antarctica during World War II Esoteric Nazism List of Antarctic expeditions Operation Highjump Yamato Yukihara McGonigal, David, Antarctica, frances lincoln...
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Robert Carl Sheppard (section Operation Tabarin)
(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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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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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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explorations, the British Admiralty and Colonial Office launched Operation Tabarin in 1943 to reassert British territorial claims against Argentine and...
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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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ship Français. Operation Tabarin established a research base, station A, on the island in 1944. Research continued until 1962 when operations were transferred...
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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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1942. 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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On 21 January 1968, a B-52G, with four nuclear bombs aboard as part of Operation Chrome Dome, crashed on the ice of the North Star Bay while attempting...
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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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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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a 90% enriched, zirconium-clad, uranium fuel. Those reactors still in operation today now use a 20%-90% enriched with 60% average enrichment uranium[clarification...
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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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