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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 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]
Martin H. Tankleff (born August 29, 1971) is an American man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, on September 7, 1988, when he was 17 years old. After serving almost 18 years of imprisonment, his conviction was vacated and he was released from prison in 2007.
HMS Seymour, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy; 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 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
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.
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 .
Samuel James Seymour (March 28, 1860 – April 12, 1956) was an American man who claimed to be the last surviving person to witness the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.