The Clerke Rocks are a group of small rocky islands some 35 miles (56 km) southeast of South Georgia that extend 5 miles (8.0 km) from east to west. The...
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named after Agnes Mary Clerke Clerke Rocks, a group of small rocky islands in the South Atlantic, named after Charles Clerke Clerke v. Harwood (1797), a...
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from South Georgia, Captain Cook sailed to the southeast to discover Clerke Rocks and a group of islands which he named "Sandwich Land" in honour of Lord...
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course in Drake Passage, visited the island of South Georgia and sighted Clerke Rocks in 1675, thereby making the first discovery of land in the Antarctic...
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Argentina. See Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute. Black Rock Clerke Rocks Shag Rocks South Georgia Annenkov Island Bird Island Cooper Island Grassholm...
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expedition. Locations currently bearing names selected by Cook include Clerke Rocks, Possession Bay, and Bay of Isles, amongst others. Additional English...
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merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675. Cook also discovered and named Clerke Rocks and the South Sandwich Islands ("Sandwich Land"). He then turned north...
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Burdwood, Davis, and Aurora Banks; the Shag, South Georgia Island and Clerke Rocks. The eastern border comprises the volcanic South Sandwich Islands flanked...
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of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, including Shag Rocks and Clerke Rocks. In November 1976, Argentine armed forces landed and occupied the...
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16 km southeast of the Shag Rocks Clerke Rocks (55°01′S 34°41′W / 55.017°S 34.683°W / -55.017; -34.683 (Clerke Rocks)) 56 km east-southeast of South...
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groups of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Shag Rocks and Clerke Rocks, became a distinct British overseas territory – South Georgia and...
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southeast end of the Clerke Rocks, lying some 40 nautical miles (70 km) east-southeast of the southeast end of South Georgia. The Clerke Rocks were discovered...
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of rocks at the northeast end of the Clerke Rocks, lying some 40 nautical miles (70 km) east-southeast of the southeast end of South Georgia. Clerke Rocks...
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west of Clerke Rocks, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (at 55°1′S 34°43′W / 55.017°S 34.717°W / -55.017; -34.717 (Clerke Rocks)) 60°0′S...
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Clarke Island Australia William Clarke Clerke Rocks South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Charles Clerke Clipperton Island France John Clipperton...
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Rowley Shoals (redirect from Clerke Reef)
reefs were also given names, Mermaid Reef being called Pulau Manjariti, Clerke Reef was Pulau Tengah and Imperieuse Reef was Pulau Matsohor.[citation needed]...
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Northern Passage to Europe: Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years...
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Islet Cholmondeley Islet Clack Island Clerke Island Coconut Island Coochiemudlo Island Crab Island Cordelia Rocks Coquet Island Curacoa Island Denham Island...
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as the Skaergaard intrusion. Notable rock provinces (metamorphic igneous rocks, ultramafics, and anorthosites) are found on the southwest coast at Qeqertarsuatsiaat...
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Mount Shadwell, was named after his friend Major Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke, and the nearby Hopkins River was named after Major John Paul Hopkins. The...
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Glacier Isingsalen Saddle Isingufsa Bluff Istind Peak Kal'vets Rock Knut Rocks Kraul Mountains Kruber Rock Kvamsgavlen Cliff Kvitkleven Cirque Kvitskarvhalsen...
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Discovery Bylot Baffin Munk I. Fyodorov HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Discovery Clerke Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper Parry HMS Hecla Lyon HMS Fury Hoppner...
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the current research stations of the Antarctic are constructed either on rocks or on ice that are (for practical purposes) fixed in place. Many of these...
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Island Raratoka Island Resolution Island Ripapa Island Rotoroa Island Rurima Rocks, including Rurima Island Ruapuke Island Secretary Island Shark Island, Manukau...
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northern passage to Europe; performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in his Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years...
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geologic uplift and the transformation of sea bed sediments into metamorphic rocks. West Antarctica was formed by the merging of several continental plates...
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Discovery Bylot Baffin Munk I. Fyodorov HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Discovery Clerke Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper Parry HMS Hecla Lyon HMS Fury Hoppner...
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out the storm offshore, in continual danger of being dashed against the rocks. They later learned that the same storm had sunk a 500-ton steamer bound...
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barometric measurement of heights, arc of the meridian, glacial transport of rocks, the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands and various points of meteorology...
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their respect for Hillary. The public were also invited to bring small rocks or pebbles that had special significance to them, that would be included...
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