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Grinder Rock
The Christiania Islands () are a group of islands and rocks between Liège Island and Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Location The Christiania Islands are in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. They are south of Hoseason Island, west of Trinity Island, northwest of Cape Herschel on the Davis Coast, and northeast of Two Hummock Island and Liège Island. Intercurrence Island is the largest of the group. Copernx satellite image Mapping and name The Christiania Islands were charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, who named the group for Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, where he obtained assistance and equipment for the expedition. Features Features include: Intercurrence Island . An island long, the largest of the Christiania Islands, lying east-northeast of Liege Island. Though the origin of this name is unknown, it has appeared on maps for over a hundred years and its usage ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of . Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of . Antarctica is, on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest of the continents, and it has the highest average elevation. It is mainly a polar desert, with annual Climate of Antarctica#Precipitation, precipitation of over along the coast and far less inland. About 70% of the world's freshwater reserves are frozen in Antarctica, which, if melted, would raise global sea levels by almost . Antarctica holds the record for the Lowest temperature recorded on Earth, lowest measured temperature on Earth, . The coastal regions can reach temperatures over in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers Island in the south. It is separated by the Gerlache Strait, Gerlache and Bismarck Strait, Bismarck straits from the Antarctic Peninsula and Wilhelm Archipelago, respectively. The archipelago is in the British Antarctic Territory, British, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Chilean, and Argentine Antarctica, Argentine Claims. Palmer Archipelago is located at . History Adrien de Gerlache, leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899), discovered the archipelago in 1898. He named it Archipelago Palmer for American Captain Nathaniel Palmer, who navigated these waters in 1820. Both Argentina and the United Kingdom have operated research stations there. Islands The archipelago includes: Gallery File:Gerlache Strait.png, Map of Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. It was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, designating the continent as a scientific preserve, establishing freedom of scientific investigation, and banning Military activity in the Antarctic, military activity; for the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all the land and ice shelf, ice shelves south of 60th parallel south, 60°S latitude. Since September 2004, the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, which implements the treaty system, is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The main treaty was opened for signature on 1 December 1959, and officially coming into force, entered into force on 23 June 1961. The original signatories were the 12 countries active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège Island
Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. Its interior is occupied by Brugmann Mountains. Liège Island is located at . British mapping in 1978 and 1980. The island was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for the province of Liège, Belgium. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Maps [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Island
Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island long and wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It lies east of Hoseason Island, south of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, and north-northwest of Cape Andreas (Antarctica), Cape Andreas on the Antarctic Peninsula. The island was named by Otto Nordenskiöld, leader of the 1901-1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SAE) in wikt:commemoration, commemoration of Edward Bransfield's "Trinity Land" of 1820. History Trinity Island, or the adjoining Davis Coast stretch of the Antarctic Peninsula, may have been the first part of Antarctica spotted by Nathaniel Palmer, on 16 November 1820. He was an American sealer, exploring southwards from Cape Horn in his little sloop searching for seal rookeries. The whole archipelago was named in his honour in 1897 by Adrien de Gerlache, leader of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. Geography Trinity Island is one of the most northerly of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the larger peninsula of West Antarctica, protruding from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of the Eklund Islands. Beneath the ice sheet that covers it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands; these are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at depths considerably below current sea level. They are joined by a grounded ice sheet. Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America, is about away across the Drake Passage. The Antarctic Peninsula is in area and 80% ice-covered. The marine ecosystem around the western continental shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been subjected to rapid Climate change in Antarctica, clima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoseason Island
Hoseason Island () is an island long and wide, lying west of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Location Hoseason Island is in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is south of Low Island (South Shetland Islands), Low Island, west of Trinity Island and north of the Christiania Islands and Liège Island. It is northeast of Cape Herschel, which divides the Danco Coast from the Davis Coast on the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Features include Cape Possession in the northwest and Angot Point in the south. Name The name of Hoseason Island, which has appeared on charts for over 100 years, commemorates James Hoseason, first mate on the ''Sprightly'', an Enderby Brothers sealing ship which operated in these waters in 1824–25. Features Features and nearby features include: Chanticleer Island . A nearly snow-free island, long, lying off the northwest end of Hoseason Island. The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Herschel
Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Bay to the northeast, Hughes Bay to the southwest and Gerlache Strait to the northwest. Its west extremity Cape Sterneck separates Danco Coast to the southwest and Davis Coast to the northeast. Name Chavdar Peninsula is named for the 16th-century Bulgarian rebel leader Chavdar Voyvoda. Features Features and nearby features include: Cape Sterneck . A bold, black cliff on a projecting point of land forming the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay. In 1898, the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache explored this area and named this cape for the German geophysicist Robert von Sterneck whose apparatus was used on the expedition. The cape is called Cape Herschel by the British, after Sir John He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Coast
Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ... for Captain John Davis, the English-born American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of Antarctica at Hughes Bay on this coast in the ''Cecilia'', February 7, 1821. Further reading * Ute Christina Herzfeld, Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data', P 115 References * Coasts of Graham Land {{DavisCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Hummock Island
Two Hummock Island () is an ice-covered island, long in a north–south direction, conspicuous for its two rocky summits high, lying southeast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Location Two Hummock Island is in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from Brabant Island and Liege Island to the west by the Croker Passage. The Christiana Islands are to the north, and Cape Herschel of the Davis Coast is to the east. Sailing direction The US Defense Mapping Agency's ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Two Hummock Island as follows: Name The name "Two Hummock Island" has appeared on maps for over 100 years and its usage has become established internationally. Features Features, clockwise from the north, include: Wauters Point . An ice-covered point forming the north end of Two Hummock Island. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Antarctic Expedition
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV ''Belgica'', it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective conquests of the North Pole. Preparation and surveying In 1896, after a period of intensive lobbying, Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery purchased the Norwegian-built whaling ship ''Patria'', which, following an extensive refit, he renamed . Gerlache had worked together with the Geographical Society of Brussels to organize a national subscription, but was able to outfit his expedition only after the Belgian government voted in favor of two large subsidies, making it a state-supported undertaking. With a multinational crew that included Roald Amundsen from Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien De Gerlache
Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (; 2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99. Early years Born in Hasselt in eastern Belgium as the son of an army officer, de Gerlache was educated in Brussels. From a young age, he was deeply attracted by the sea, and made three voyages in 1883 and 1884 to the United States as a cabin boy on an ocean liner. He studied engineering at the Free University of Brussels. After finishing his third year in 1885, he quit the university and joined the Belgian Navy on 19 January 1886. After graduating from the nautical college of Ostend he worked on fishery protection vessels as second and third lieutenant. In October 1887 he signed on as a seaman on the ''Craigie Burn'', an English ship, for a voyage to San Francisco, but the ship failed to round Cape Horn and was sold for scrap in Montevideo. He returned to Europe after spending time in Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
