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Trinity Peninsula on Antarctic Peninsula. James Ross Island group to the left. The James Ross Island group lies in Graham Land to the east of the tip of Trinity Peninsula, which is itself the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from the mainland by Prince Gustav Channel, to the west. Eagle Island is to the north
satellite image. The Erebus hotspot is a volcanic hotspot responsible for the high volcanic activity on Ross Island in the western Ross Sea of Antarctica.Its current eruptive zone, Mount Erebus, has erupted continuously since its discovery in 1841.
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Scientists used satellite imagery and data to analyze vegetation levels on the Antarctic Peninsula, a long mountain chain that points north to the tip of South America, and which has been warming ...
Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles (80 km; 49 mi) from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east. The island is entirely volcanic.
A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth recently captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers appear to be smoking. The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing ...
Mosaic of Landsat images, showing McMurdo Sound (right) and the Dry Valleys (left). Part of Ross Island is visible upper right. Aerial photo of Mount Erebus on Ross Island. The actual amount of land mass claimed is not large; most of the area defined as being in the Ross Dependency is either in the Ross Sea or the Antarctic Ocean. It is the ...
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