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Having about a week to "kill," they decided to attempt to cross the Gerlache Strait, on which Almirante Brown is located, to some islands several miles away. In some respects, the trip across the straits was the most dangerous part of the journey, since they were forced to travel in choppy seas thay
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Matt Karsten, 40, and his wife Anna, 32, have captured harrowing footage of a gentoo penguin narrowly escaping the jaws of a few hungry killer whales in the Antarctic. The Karstens were whale watching aboard a dinghy in the Gerlache Strait, near the tip of Antarctica, when they spotted a penguin
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SNOW HILL ISLAND, Weddell Sea, Dec. 2. -- A heavy snowstorm and much ice have made it necessary to change the plan for going from De Gerlache Strait out to sea and south to Adelaide Island.
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that a heavy snowstorm and ice made it necessary to change his plan for going from De Gerlache Strait out to sea and south to
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The writer Dianne Ackerman said she went to Gerlache Strait in the 1990s in order to find inspiration for writing prose.
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at any time could have flipped over their light rafts and thrown any or all of them into the freezing water.
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The Tectonic Structure of Gerlache Strait, West Antarctica, in Polish Polar Studies XXVI Polar Symposium
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The Gerlache Strait has spiky blue icebergs, and is widely considered a great spot for whale-watching.
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The swim itself, made in the Gerlache Strait to the beach at Neko Harbor, was not without drama.
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Map of Gerlache Strait region, Cartographic base: Antarctic Digital Database www.add.scar.org/
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made several discoveries, including a flightless midge fly that was later formally named
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Ellsworth, Lincoln; Leader; Expedition, Ellsworth Transantarctic Flight (1934-12-03).
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are identifiable in the Gerlache Strait area, bounded by two systems of
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hurry by their vessel — followed by a pod of killer whales just behind.
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became the first person to swim a mile in the near-freezing
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is bound by the Neumayer Fault and the Fournier Fault. The
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includes northwest Anvers Island and its offshore islands
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to it so that it can be listed with similar articles.
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encompasses the southern portion of that island. The
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On the expedition in the Gerlache Strait, biologist
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channel
strait
Palmer Archipelago
Antarctic Peninsula
Belgian Antarctic Expedition
Adrien de Gerlache
Belgica
Emil Racoviță
Belgica antarctica
entomologist
Jean-Charles Jacobs
tectonic blocks
Tertiary
strike-slip faults
Peltier Channel
Wiencke Island
Anvers Island
Brabant Island
Schollaert Channel
Danco Coast Block
Cape Willems
Wilhelmina Bay
Brabant Island Block
Neumayer Channel Block
Anvers-Melchior Islands Block
Melchior Islands
Lincoln Ellsworth
Adelaide Island
Lynne Cox

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