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Peperuda Island
Peperuda Island ( bg, остров Пеперуда, ostrov Peperuda, ) is the mostly ice-free island 592 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 309 m wide in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 9.51 ha.Peperuda Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a butterfly ('peperuda' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area. Location Peperuda Island is located at , which is 25 m north of |
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern 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 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 measured temperature on Earth, . The coastal regions can reach temperatures over in summer. Native species of animals include mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades. Where vegetation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Archipelago
The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends from Bismarck Strait southwest to Lumus Rock, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. He named them for Wilhelm I, then German Emperor and King of Prussia. Island groups * Anagram Islands * Argentine Islands * Betbeder Islands * Cruls Islands * Dannebrog Islands * Myriad Islands * Roca Islands * Vedel Islands * Wauwermans Islands * Yalour Islands See also * Ambrose Rocks * Bradley Rock * Guéguen Point * Petermann Island * Southwind Passage Southwind Passage () is a navigable passage between Betbeder Islands and Dickens Rocks, located at the north extremity of the Biscoe Islands Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Treaty System
russian: link=no, Договор об Антарктике es, link=no, Tratado Antártico , name = Antarctic Treaty System , image = Flag of the Antarctic Treaty.svgborder , image_width = 180px , caption = Flag of the Antarctic Treaty System , type = Condominium , date_drafted = , date_signed = December 1, 1959"Antarctic Treaty" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 439. , location_signed = Washington, D.C., United States , date_sealed = , date_effective = June 23, 1961 , condition_effective = Ratification of all 12 signatories , date_expiration = , signatories = 12 , parties = 55 , depositor = Federal government of the United States , languages = English, French, Russian, and Spanish , wikisource = Antarctic Treaty The Antarctic Treaty an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín 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. Over the past 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovgaard Island (Antarctica)
Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Location Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It is southwest of Booth Island, northwest of Mount Shackleton on the mainland, northeast of the French Passage and east of the Vedel Islands.. It is off the northwest coast of the Kyiv Peninsula. Hovgaard Island is a popular location for camping in Antarctica among expedition groups due to the presence of a relatively flat campsite along Penola Strait. Campers dig "snow graves" to sleep in. The holes offer protection from the wind. Discovery and name Hovgaard Island was discovered and named Krogmann Island by the German 1873–74 expedition under Eduard Dallmann, but the name Hovgaard applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, has overtaken the original name in usage. Andreas Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pléneau Island
Hovgaard Island () is an island long, lying southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Location Hovgaard Island is off the Graham Coast of the northwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It is southwest of Booth Island, northwest of Mount Shackleton on the mainland, northeast of the French Passage and east of the Vedel Islands.. It is off the northwest coast of the Kyiv Peninsula. Hovgaard Island is a popular location for camping in Antarctica among expedition groups due to the presence of a relatively flat campsite along Penola Strait. Campers dig "snow graves" to sleep in. The holes offer protection from the wind. Discovery and name Hovgaard Island was discovered and named Krogmann Island by the German 1873–74 expedition under Eduard Dallmann, but the name Hovgaard applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, has overtaken the original name in usage. Andreas Peter Hovga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamya Island
Lamya Island ( bg, остров Ламя, ostrov Lamya, ) is the partly ice-free island 1.56 km long in west–east direction and 630 m wide in the Dannebrog Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 45.72 ha.Lamya Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a lamya, monster creature in Bulgarian mythology, and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area. Location Lamya Island is located at , which is 85 m south of Elisabethinsel, 2.76 km southwest of the west extremity of |
Dannebrog Islands
The Dannebrog Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between the Wauwermans Islands and the Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The Wilhelm Archipelago was first sighted and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74, and was resighted and the whole archipelago named the Flag of Denmark, Dannebrog Islands by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, in appreciation of support given to Gerlache by Denmark. Dallmann's original naming has been retained for the archipelago, and the name Dannebrog restricted to the smaller group here described. Islands in the group * Akula Island * Bodloperka Island * Elisabethinsel * Greblo Island * Hoatsin Island * Kalmar Island * Kosatka Island * Lamantin Island * Mechka Island * Meduza Island * Mishka Island * Padpadak Island * Pegas Island * Peperuda Island * Raketa Island * Rog Island * Shut Island * Skoba Island * Sprey Island * Stego Island * Taralezh Island * Tigan Island * Tyulen Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scientific Committee On Antarctic Research
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC). SCAR coordinates international scientific research efforts in Antarctica, including the Southern Ocean. SCAR's scientific work is administered through several discipline-themed ''science groups''. The organisation has observer status at, and provides independent advice to Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, and also provides information to other international bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). History At the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)’s Antarctic meeting held in Stockholm from 9–11 September 1957, it was agreed that a committee should be created to oversee scientific research in Antarctica. At the time there were 12 nations actively conducting Antarctic research and they were each invited to nominate one delegate to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composite Gazetteer Of Antarctica
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about those names and the relevant geographical features. The Gazetteer includes also parts of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) gazetteer for under-sea features situated south of 60° south latitude. , the overall content of the CGA amounts to 37,893 geographic names for 19,803 features including some 500 features with two or more entirely different names, contributed by the following sources: {, class="wikitable sortable" ! Country ! Names , - , United States , 13,192 , - , United Kingdom , 5,040 , - , Russia , 4,808 , - , New Zealand , 2,597 , - , Australia , 2,551 , - , Argentina , 2,545 , - , Chile , 1,866 , - , Norway , 1,706 , - , Bulgaria , 1,450 , - , Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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