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Seabee Hook is a low, recurved spit composed of coarse volcanic ash which projects about west from the high rocky ridge forming
Seabee Hook is a low, recurved spit composed of coarse volcanic ash which projects about west from the high rocky ridge forming Cape Hallett
Cape Hallett is a snow-free area ( Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north.
History
In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...
, along the coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...
. In January 1956, members of the US Navy's Operation Deep Freeze
Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...
aboard the icebreaker USS ''Edisto'' investigated and surveyed this area for possible use as a base site for International Geophysical Year operations. Seabee
, colors =
, mascot = Bumblebee
, battles = Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, Los Negros, Guam, Peleliu, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Philippin ...
is a phonetic spelling of CB (for "construction battalion") and refers to individual or collective members of naval construction engineer units.
Adélie penguin colony
The spit is home to a large breeding colony of Adélie penguins which is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as part of the Cape Hallett Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA No.106). It has also been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because of the size of the Adélie penguin colony, with about 64,000 breeding pairs present, as estimated in 2009.South polar skua
The south polar skua (''Stercorarius maccormicki'') is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specimen. ...
s also breed in the IBA.
See also
*Seabee
, colors =
, mascot = Bumblebee
, battles = Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, Los Negros, Guam, Peleliu, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Philippin ...
References
External links
* Antarctic Specially Protected Areas Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Seabird colonies Spits of Antarctica Landforms of Victoria Land Seabees Borchgrevink Coast {{BorchgrevinkCoast-geo-stub