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Palmer Area Islands

The Palmer Station Safe Boating Map defines the area of operations accessible by the Zodiac fleet from Palmer ...

Christine Island

Bonaparte Point

Shortcut Island

The Backyard is the area behind Palmer Station, between Terra Lab and the Marr Ice Piedmont. Site of ...

Weather Stations

Wauwerman Islands

Torgersen Island

Describes the area on Amsler Island around the first site of Palmer Station, now known as Old P. ...

Litchfield Island

A cluster of three small islands favored by elephant seals, located upwind of Palmer Station... adds a lovely ...

The Palmer Dump was the trash heap from the days of Navy Seabees. Covered a large area at ...

Seawater Pumphouse

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 ...

Dead Seal Rocks

Restricted under the ASMA from October 1 to April 15 to protect ??? Abbreviated COR Not to be ...

Cormorant Island

Eichorst Island

A tiny rock on the way to Biscoe Point. Not sure why it's named, exactly!

Limitrophe Island

Killer Whale Rocks is a rocky shoal near DeLaca Island and Split Rock. Continuously cresting waves.

Killer Whale Rocks

Not officially named (yet!). Cove in Amsler Island that was revealed by the retreat of the glacier.

Sheathbill Cove

Vessel by which we transit it Palmer Station in addition to a research vessel.

RV Laurence M. Gould

So far, two Sheathbill nests on within station. Not commonly nesting in the area. Feeding from The Outfall. ...

Sheathbill Nests

Glass Crusher smashes all the glass! Dust distributed into the ocean off the deck of the ARSV Laurence ...

No longer a cove, in the traditional sense, now that the glacier has receded to open a passage ...

Macerator House

Hellermen Rocks

64,49'S 63,49'W Named by the British Antarctic Survey in the 1950s in honor of John Biscoe, who may ...

A small beach on the far side of the flagged-safe area of the glacier in The Backyard. Briefly ...

A tiny island so near Janus Island that it is often considered part of the island. Only appears ...

The Bismarck Strait is a channel between the southern end of Anvers and Wiencke Islands and the Wilhelm ...

Bismarck Strait

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.

So much to write about these damn things. Fuel Pumphouse. Main Fuel Tank Redundant Fuel Tank (and the ...

Cylinder Storage

The Palmer Station Webcam is mounted on a tower overlooking the smallest of the United States Antarctic stations, ...

The South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name ...

South Polar Skua

The Mash and Grind doesn't really grind per se... it's the trash compacting area just outside BIO LAB. ...

At the outermost edge of the Boating Limits.

Restricted under ASMA from 1 October to 15 April. Abbreviated STE. Has an emergency cache.

Stepping Stones

On 16 August 1897, Belgica departed Antwerp, Belgium for the Antarctic, with a crew of 23 led by ...

Closed for safety... dangerous rocks and currents... all year round. Abbreviated JAC in notes.

"Pancake ice is a form of ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from ...

Fuel Pump House houses all our pumps and valves for Main and Redudant Fuel Tanks.

No fire suppression, ha!

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.

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