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The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Originally in the genus Phoca with a number of other species, it was reclassified into the monotypic genus Pagophilus in 1844.
SS Viking was a wooden-hulled sealing ship made famous by its role in the 1931 film The Viking. During her use in the seal hunt in Newfoundland , the ship was twice commissioned by the film crew. During production, an explosion destroyed the ship, resulting in the loss of the director, Varick Frissell , and the cinematographer, Alexander ...
Saddleback caterpillar, Acharia stimulea, the larva of a species of moth native to eastern North America; Saddleback clownfish, Amphiprion polymnus, a black and white species of anemonefish; Saddleback seal, or harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus; Saddleback toad, a genus of small, colourful toads the family Brachycephalidae
The Special Operations Forces Cold Weather Maritime Training Facility, Naval Special Warfare Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak is a United States Navy base near Kodiak, Alaska used to train United States Navy SEALs. The training includes cold weather survival and advanced tactical training in forested, coastal environments.
The Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre (SRRC; Dutch: Zeehondencentrum Pieterburen; lit. ' Pieterburen Seal Centre ') is located in the village of Pieterburen in Groningen, the Netherlands. Until 2016, it was called a 'seal crèche' (zeehondencrèche), [3] because it had mainly cared for young orphaned pinnipeds before then. In recent years ...
A 326 ha (810 acres) tract of ice-free land extending 9 km (5.6 mi) to the north, and including Stinker Point, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 12,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins.
Gentoo penguins breed in the IBA. D'Urville Monument is a conspicuous conical summit, 575 m (1,886 ft) high, at the south-west end of Joinville Island, off the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands Cape Shirreff Barclay Bay and Robbery Beaches from near Basalt Lake on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with left to right Lair Point, Frederick Rocks, Cutler Stack, Nedelya Point and the northern part of Urvich Wall in the middle ground, and Cape Shirreff and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in the right ...