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Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) [note 1] is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) [5] region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. [6] It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east .
Vapour Col is a col lying south of Stonethrow Ridge on the west side of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.The name given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 originates from the fumaroles in the col. [1] This is the only locality on Deception Island where there is a complete cross section through the stratigraphy of volcanic succession.
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On 4 February 2007, the Spanish Gabriel de Castilla research station on Deception Island reported that water and sand tests were clean, and that they had not found signs of the oil, estimated as 500 to 750 L of light diesel (130 to 200 US gal; 110 to 160 imp gal). Deception Island exhibits some wildly varying microclimates. Near volcanic areas ...
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Peter I Island, in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, possession since 1929. Bouvet Island, in the sub-Antarctic and South Atlantic Ocean, possession since 1930. Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica, possession since 1939.
Kroner Lake is a circular lake 370 m (1,210 ft) in diameter, lying immediately west of Whalers Bay, on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.Its old name, "Tokroningen", meaning the two kroner piece, was given by whalers during the period 1905–31.
Location of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. Telefon Bay. Telefon Bay is a small bay on the north-west coast of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It is surmounted by Telefon Ridge. The name appears on the chart of the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10.