Beer Island

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Beer Island ( 66°0′S65°41′W / 66.000°S 65.683°W / -66.000; -65.683 Coordinates: 66°0′S65°41′W / 66.000°S 65.683°W / -66.000; -65.683 ) is an island in the South Pacific, 1 nautical mile (2 km) long, lying close to The Niblets and immediately south of Jagged Island and 8 nautical miles (15 km) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37. [1]

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The Niblets

The Niblets is a group of rocks in the South Pacific. Situated between Harp Island and Beer Island, lying 15 kilometres (8 nmi) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land. Charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, under Rymill. The name suggests the small size of features in the group.

Jagged Island (Graham Land) Antarctic island

Jagged Island is an island 4 kilometres (2 nmi) long, lying 2 kilometres (1 nmi) east of Dodman Island and 15 kilometres (8 nmi) west of Ferin Head, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was probably first sighted in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, under John Rymill.

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Prospect Point (Antarctica) headland

Prospect Point is a headland at the west extremity of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, nearly 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Ferin Head and immediately east of the Fish Islands. Roughly charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934-37. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. The name was suggested in 1957 by E. P. Arrowsmith, Governor of the Falkland Islands.

Woolpack Island is a narrow island 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long, lying 4 nautical miles (7 km) northeast of Vieugue Island at the west side of Grandidier Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, under Rymill.

Anderton Glacier glacier in Antarctica

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Balch Glacier glacier in Antarctica

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Beascochea Bay bay

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Clements Island is an island 1 nautical mile (2 km) long lying immediately south of Rabot Island in the Biscoe Islands. The French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, gave the name Ile Clements Markham for Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1893–1905. Charcot applied this name to an incompletely defined island northeast of Renaud Island, in what is now the Pitt Islands. The recommended application, however, is based upon the map of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, which provided a more reliable chart of the area. The first part of the name, rather than the last, has been retained to distinguish this feature from Markham Island in Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land.

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Mutton Cove, Biscoe Islands cove

Mutton Cove is an anchorage 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) northeast of the south end of Beer Island in the Biscoe Islands. The cove is formed by four small islands, Harp, Upper, Cliff and Girdler Islands. Beer Island shelters the cove from the west. Charted in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill and, at the suggestion of Lieutenant R.G.D. Ryder, Royal Navy, captain of the days in a training ship at Devonport.

Stubb Glacier glacier of Graham Land

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Trigonia Island is a small island immediately off the south tip of Beer Island, lying 8 nautical miles (15 km) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, under Rymill.

Mount Poster is a mountain lying west of the Latady Mountains and 9 nautical miles (17 km) northwest of Mount Tenney, in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-67. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Carl K. Poster, geophysicist with the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) South Pole—Queen Maud Land Traverse III, summer 1967-68.

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McClary Glacier is a glacier 10 nautical miles (19 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It flows southwest along the north side of Butson Ridge into Marguerite Bay between Cape Calmette and the Debenham Islands. The glacier was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1936–37, and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1946–50. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for George B. McClary, father of Nelson McClary, mate on the Port of Beaumont during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48.

Marker Rock is a rock lying 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) north-northwest of Turnabout Island in the Saffery Islands, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 because it marks the ships' passage through the Saffery Islands.

Holmes Island is an island 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) long, lying south of Vieugue Island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Bryan Holmes, a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyor at Prospect Point in 1957, who was attached to the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in this area, 1957–58.

Holtedahl Bay bay

Holtedahl Bay is a bay, 10 nautical miles (19 km) long in a northwest–southeast direction and averaging 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide, between Velingrad Peninsula and Stresher Peninsula along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The bay is entered southwest of Prospect Point and northeast of Black Head, and has its head fed by Hugi Glacier.

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