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Everson Ridge () is a ridge extending from
Jebsen Point 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) after his wife, Signy Therese. The island is about long and wide and rises to above se ...
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Tioga Hill Tioga Hill () is a rounded summit, 290 m, standing at the west side the head of McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands), McLeod Glacier on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The hill is the highest point on the island. Surveyed in 1947 by the ...
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Signy Island Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norway, Norwegian whaling, whaler Petter Sørlle (1884–1933) after his wife, Signy Therese. The island is about long and wide and ri ...
. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
after Inigo Everson, a
British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...
biologist on Signy Island, 1965–66.


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