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Palmer Station, Antarctica
Palmer Station
Breaker Island
List of pages tagged "island" See also Boating Map.
Palmer Area Islands
Christine Island
Amsler Island
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
Norsel Point
Shortcut Island
Arthur Harbor
Trolley
Gamage Point
Weather Stations
Wauwerman Islands
The Backyard is the area behind Palmer Station, between Terra Lab and the Marr Ice Piedmont. Site of ...
The Backyard
Janus Island
BIO LAB
Hot Tub
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
Torgersen Island
Outfall
Earth Station
Litchfield Island
DeLaca Island
Kristie Cove
Dream Island
Bat Cave
Dive Locker
Restricted under the ASMA from October 1 to April 15 to protect ??? Abbreviated COR Not to be ...
Cormorant Island
The Palmer Dump was the trash heap from the days of Navy Seabees. Covered a large area at ...
Palmer Dump
Seawater Pumphouse
Named after the original Hero, a 125-ft wooden sail boat that served as the original research and supply ...
Hero Inlet
No restrictions, but it does lay outside our boating limits and therefore is not regularly visited. Do we ...
Outcast Islands
Parking Lot
FEMC Shop
Terra Lab
Haz Milvans
Dead Seal Rocks
Surge Rocks
Eichorst Island
Skytrak
Seismic Hut
Aquarium
Halfway Island
Boathouse
Glass Crusher smashes all the glass! Dust distributed into the ocean off the deck of the ARSV Laurence ...
Glass Crusher
Food Freezers
Not officially named (yet!). Cove in Amsler Island that was revealed by the retreat of the glacier.
Sheathbill Cove
A tiny rock on the way to Biscoe Point. Not sure why it's named, exactly!
Loaf Rock
Macerator House
The South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name ...
South Polar Skua
64,49'S 63,49'W Named by the British Antarctic Survey in the 1950s in honor of John Biscoe, who may ...
Biscoe Point
Limitrophe Island
Haz Storage
Laggard Island
T-5 Building
Slim
Killer Whale Rocks is a rocky shoal near DeLaca Island and Split Rock. Continuously cresting waves.
Killer Whale Rocks
So far, two Sheathbill nests on within station. Not commonly nesting in the area. Feeding from The Outfall. ...
Sheathbill Nests
Artwork
Clean Air Hut
At the outermost edge of the Boating Limits.
Spume Island
Volatiles
Hellermen Rocks
The Mash and Grind doesn't really grind per se... it's the trash compacting area just outside BIO LAB. ...
Mash and Grind
Rec Hut
Lipps Island
The Palmer Station Webcam is mounted on a tower overlooking the smallest of the United States Antarctic stations, ...
Webcam
A small beach on the far side of the flagged-safe area of the glacier in The Backyard. Briefly ...
Point 8
Cylinder Storage
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
Drum Farm
Vessel by which we transit it Palmer Station in addition to a research vessel.
RV Laurence M. Gould
The Bismarck Strait is a channel between the southern end of Anvers and Wiencke Islands and the Wilhelm ...
Bismarck Strait
Hermit Island
A tiny island so near Janus Island that it is often considered part of the island. Only appears ...
Split Rock
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
VHF Hut
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
On 16 August 1897, Belgica departed Antwerp, Belgium for the Antarctic, with a crew of 23 led by ...
RV Belgica
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
No fire suppression, ha!
Carp Shop
Closed for safety... dangerous rocks and currents... all year round. Abbreviated JAC in notes.
Jacobs Island
Fuel Pump House houses all our pumps and valves for Main and Redudant Fuel Tanks.
Fuel Pumphouse
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