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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean off Antarctica. Formerly used as land bases by sealers and whalers, the islands are part of the British Antarctic Territory, although they have also been claimed by Argentina and Chile.
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- proper noun A group of
islands in theAntarctic Circle , lying north of theAntarctic Peninsula .
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The name South Shetland Islands is now established in international usage.
South Shetland Islands Wikipedia 2009
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The South Shetland Islands are a group of over twenty islands approximately 60 -150 miles (100 - 240km) north and north east of the Antarctic Peninsula and 530 miles (850 Km) south and south west of Cape Horn Several of the islands are, or include, active volcanoes.
South Shetland Islands Wikipedia 2009
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Yet there was not much to bring back to life; as Clarke put it, Eights 'pioneering research on the South Shetland Islands (1829) was "the first and almost only notch in the tally stick of his real career."
James Eights 2009
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Volcanic activity occurs in various places including offshore in the South Shetland Islands.
Antarctic Peninsula 2009
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If so, he and the Annawan visited Patagonia, Staten Island, Tierra del Fuego, and the South Shetland Islands in 1829-1830.
James Eights 2009
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As they sailed in and around the South Shetland Islands, and to their west and south sought rumored, and uncharted, islands, they discovered few untapped rookeries.
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The expedition was, for the most part, a failure, but one member of the expedition, James Eights collected fossils on the South Shetland Islands, a first and significant find.
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Separating the peninsula from nearby islands is the numerous channels and straits, such as the Bransfield Strait that separates the mainland of peninsula from the South Shetland Islands.
Antarctic Peninsula 2009
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Following the discovery of the South Shetland Islands in February 1819, seal hunters rushed to the islands and began arriving a few days ahead of the first charting expedition conducted by Edward Bransfield and William Smith in January 1820.
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The first sighting of Graham Land occurred on January 30, 1820 by a British expedition headed by Edward Bransfield and piloted by William Smith sailing south from the South Shetland Islands when they observed "high mountains, covered with snow" and named the area Trinity Land.
Antarctic Peninsula 2009
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