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Seymour Island or Marambio Island, is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. [ 2 ]
Seymour baronets, two titles in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom; Seymour Airport, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Seymour College, a day and boarding school in Glen Osmond, South Australia; Seymour Football Club, Victoria, Australia; Seymour, the original title of the band Blur
A sound which extends in a northeast-southwest direction and separates Seymour Island and Snow Hill Island from James Ross Island. The broad northeast part of the sound was named Admiralty Inlet by the British expedition under James Clark Ross, who discovered it on 6 January 1843. The feature was determined to be a sound rather than a bay in ...
Seymour Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. A member of the Berkeley Islands group, it is located approximately 30 mi (48 km) north of northern Bathurst Island .
Seymour Island was named after George Francis Seymour, Commander-in-chief of the Pacific Station (1844-1847), and was given by John James Onslow, captain of HMS Daphne (1838) which spent a month in Galapagos in February-March 1845. [1] Its present name North Seymour distinguishes it from nearby Baltra Island, also known as South Seymour. [2]
Some 326 ha of sparsely vegetated, ice-free ground, including the point and adjacent cobbled beach, and extending 1260 m inland, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 16,000 pairs of Adélie penguins.
The Lopez de Bertodano Formation is a geological formation in the James Ross archipelago of the Antarctic Peninsula.The strata date from the end of the Late Cretaceous (upper-lower Maastrichtian stage [1]) to the Danian stage of the lower Paleocene, from about 70 to 65.5 million years ago, straddling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Seymour Island usually refers to an island off the tip of the Graham Land in Antarctica. Seymour Island may also refer to: Seymour Island (Nunavut), an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut; North Seymour Island, formerly Seymour Island, an uninhabited island in the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador