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