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Palmer Station, Antarctica
Palmer Station
Amsler Island
Breaker Island
Christine Island
List of pages tagged "island" See also Boating Map.
Palmer Area Islands
Anvers Island
The Palmer Station Safe Boating Map defines the area of operations accessible by the Zodiac fleet from Palmer ...
Boating Map
Humble Island
Bonaparte Point
Shortcut Island
Arthur Harbor
Norsel Point
Gamage Point
Trolley
The Backyard is the area behind Palmer Station, between Terra Lab and the Marr Ice Piedmont. Site of ...
The Backyard
Wauwerman Islands
Weather Stations
Describes the area on Amsler Island around the first site of Palmer Station, now known as Old P. ...
Old Palmer
Litchfield Island
Earth Station
Hot Tub
Torgersen Island
A cluster of three small islands favored by elephant seals, located upwind of Palmer Station... adds a lovely ...
Elephant Rocks
BIO LAB
Janus Island
Outfall
The Palmer Dump was the trash heap from the days of Navy Seabees. Covered a large area at ...
Palmer Dump
Dead Seal Rocks
Dive Locker
Parking Lot
Boathouse
Seawater Pumphouse
Dream Island
Aquarium
Haz Milvans
Terra Lab
Surge Rocks
DeLaca Island
Named after the original Hero, a 125-ft wooden sail boat that served as the original research and supply ...
Hero Inlet
Bat Cave
Kristie Cove
Skytrak
Eichorst Island
Halfway Island
No restrictions, but it does lay outside our boating limits and therefore is not regularly visited. Do we ...
Outcast Islands
Seismic Hut
Restricted under the ASMA from October 1 to April 15 to protect ??? Abbreviated COR Not to be ...
Cormorant Island
FEMC Shop
The Mash and Grind doesn't really grind per se... it's the trash compacting area just outside BIO LAB. ...
Mash and Grind
At the outermost edge of the Boating Limits.
Spume Island
Cylinder Storage
Lipps Island
A tiny rock on the way to Biscoe Point. Not sure why it's named, exactly!
Loaf Rock
Haz Storage
Macerator House
64,49'S 63,49'W Named by the British Antarctic Survey in the 1950s in honor of John Biscoe, who may ...
Biscoe Point
The Palmer Station Webcam is mounted on a tower overlooking the smallest of the United States Antarctic stations, ...
Webcam
Hellermen Rocks
Drum Farm
Rec Hut
Food Freezers
A tiny island so near Janus Island that it is often considered part of the island. Only appears ...
Split Rock
So far, two Sheathbill nests on within station. Not commonly nesting in the area. Feeding from The Outfall. ...
Sheathbill Nests
VHF Hut
Vessel by which we transit it Palmer Station in addition to a research vessel.
RV Laurence M. Gould
Killer Whale Rocks is a rocky shoal near DeLaca Island and Split Rock. Continuously cresting waves.
Killer Whale Rocks
Not officially named (yet!). Cove in Amsler Island that was revealed by the retreat of the glacier.
Sheathbill Cove
Laggard Island
Slim
Hermit Island
T-5 Building
Limitrophe Island
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/our_history/stations_and_refuges/anvers_island.php What the link doesn't tell you is that it burnt down in 1993.
Station N
So much to write about these damn things. Fuel Pumphouse. Main Fuel Tank Redundant Fuel Tank (and the ...
Fuel Tanks
No longer a cove, in the traditional sense, now that the glacier has receded to open a passage ...
Loudwater Cove
Artwork
Clean Air Hut
Volatiles
Glass Crusher smashes all the glass! Dust distributed into the ocean off the deck of the ARSV Laurence ...
Glass Crusher
The South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name ...
South Polar Skua
The Bismarck Strait is a channel between the southern end of Anvers and Wiencke Islands and the Wilhelm ...
Bismarck Strait
A small beach on the far side of the flagged-safe area of the glacier in The Backyard. Briefly ...
Point 8
On 16 August 1897, Belgica departed Antwerp, Belgium for the Antarctic, with a crew of 23 led by ...
RV Belgica
No fire suppression, ha!
Carp Shop
Restricted under ASMA from 1 October to 15 April. Abbreviated STE. Has an emergency cache.
Stepping Stones
"Pancake ice is a form of ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from ...
Pancake Ice
Closed for safety... dangerous rocks and currents... all year round. Abbreviated JAC in notes.
Jacobs Island
Restricted under ASMA from 1 October to 15 April. Abbreviated SHP. Barely extends beyond the glacier safety line.
Shortcut Point
Site of the Bahia Paraiso shipwreck. Starboard hull actually rises above the waterline at low tide.
Bahia Paraiso Wreck
Fuel Pump House houses all our pumps and valves for Main and Redudant Fuel Tanks.
Fuel Pumphouse
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