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