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Potter Cove
SCAR Gazetteer Ref. No 11521 This name originates from United Kingdom, but is also called , Potter Cove (United States of America), Potter, Caleta (Chile) and Potter, caleta (Argentina). It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. Between Winship Point and Three Brothers Hill, S King George Island, was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers (having been discovered by ...View more
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Admiralty Bay
SCAR Gazetteer Ref. No 86 This name originates from United Kingdom, but is also called , Admiralty Bay (Russia), Admiralty Bay (United States of America), Almirantazgo, Bahía (Chile) and Lasserre, bahía (Argentina). It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. S coast of King George Island, between Demay Point and Martins Head, was roughly charted by Powell in 1820-22 an...View more
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Neumayer Station
In 1981, the first Georg von Neumayer Station in the Antarctic was established on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf as a research observatory for geophysical, meteorological and atmospheric chemistry measurements, as well as a logistics base for summer expeditions. Georg von Neumayer, whom the station is named after, was an important patron of Germany's research activities in Antarctica. Ice movements and heavy snow deposits demanded the construction of a...View more