Hope Bay, the Glossary
Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.[1]
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39 relations: Acronym, Adélie penguin, Antarctic (ship), Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Sound, Antarctic tern, Antarctic Treaty System, ARA Uruguay, Bird colony, BirdLife International, British Antarctic Survey, Brown skua, ECARE, Gentoo penguin, Graham Land, Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica, Hope Bay incident, Important Bird Area, Instituto Antártico Argentino, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Joinville Island, Jurassic, Kelp gull, Mott Snowfield, Mount Bransfield, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nunatak, Otto Nordenskjöld, Penguin, Research stations in Antarctica, Snowy sheathbill, Spanish language, Swedish Antarctic Expedition, Tabarin Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, Uruguay, Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, Wilson's storm petrel.
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Adélie penguin
The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found.
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Antarctic (ship)
Antarctic was a Swedish steamship built in Drammen, Norway, in 1871.
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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. Hope Bay and Antarctic Peninsula are British Antarctic Territory.
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Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Hope Bay and Antarctic Sound are important Bird Areas of Antarctica.
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Antarctic tern
The Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata) is a seabird in the family Laridae.
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Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
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ARA Uruguay
The corbeta (corvette) ARA Uruguay, built in England, is the largest ship afloat of its age in the Armada de la República Argentina (Argentine Navy), with more than 140 years passed since its commissioning in September 1874.
Bird colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.
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British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. Hope Bay and British Antarctic Survey are British Antarctic Territory.
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Brown skua
The brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as the Antarctic skua, subantarctic skua, southern great skua, southern skua, or hākoakoa (Māori), is a large seabird that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones and moves further north when not breeding.
ECARE
The Estación Científica Antártica Ruperto Elichiribehety (English: Ruperto Elichiribehety Antarctic Scientific Station; better known in English by its Spanish acronym ECARE) is an Uruguay summer research station in Antarctica, established by the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute on December 22, 1997 on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Gentoo penguin
The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species (or possibly a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus).
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Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. Hope Bay and Graham Land are British Antarctic Territory.
Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica
A Historic Site or Monument (HSM) is a protected location of historic interest on the continent of Antarctica, or on its adjacent islands. Hope Bay and historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica are historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica.
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Hope Bay incident
The Hope Bay incident occurred in February 1952 at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
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Instituto Antártico Argentino
The Instituto Antártico Argentino (Argentine Antarctic Institute, abbrevriated IAA) is the Argentine federal agency in charge of orientating, controlling, addressing and performing scientific and technical research and studies in the Antarctic.
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Johan Gunnar Andersson
Johan Gunnar Andersson (3 July 1874 – 29 October 1960)"Andersson, Johan Gunnar" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Joinville Island
Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east–west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Kelp gull
The kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull that breeds on coasts and islands through much of the Southern Hemisphere.
Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound.
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Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
Otto Nordenskjöld
Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.
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Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
Research stations in Antarctica
Multiple governments have set up permanent research stations in Antarctica and these bases are widely distributed.
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Snowy sheathbill
The snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), also known as the greater sheathbill, pale-faced sheathbill, and paddy, is one of two species of sheathbill.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Swedish Antarctic Expedition
The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen.
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Tabarin Peninsula
The Tabarin Peninsula is a peninsula long and wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
Uruguayan Antarctic Institute
The Uruguayan Antarctic Institute (Instituto Antártico Uruguayo) is Uruguay's governmental agency to fund, organize, control and promote research on Antarctica according with the Antarctic Treaty System.
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Wilson's storm petrel
Wilson's storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.
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See also
Bays of Trinity Peninsula
- Duse Bay
- Hope Bay
- Huon Bay (Antarctica)
- Lafond Bay
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Bay
Also known as Andersson Nunatak, Arena Glacier, Blade Ridge, Contact Point, Eagle Cove, Eddy Col, Esperanza Bay, Grunden Rock, Hut Cove, Jagged Rocks, Lake Boeckella, Lake Hope (Antarctica), Mount Taylor (Antarctica), Scar Hills, Seal Point (Graham Land), Sheppard Nunatak, Sheppard Point, Stone Point, Stone Point (disambiguation), Stone Point, Antarctica, The Crest (Antarctica), Twin Peaks (Antarctica), Whitten Peak.