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The US Defense Mapping Agency's Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1976) describes Seymour Island as follows: Seymour Island lies northeastward of Snow Hill Island, from which it is separated by a strait about 1 mile wide. Strong currents and tide rips exist in this channel which shoals to less than 1.8mi (1 nm) in the center of the channel at ...
Thayer's gull and glaucous gull are to be found here also, but the island is most notable for ivory gulls, found on Seymour Island from May to September. [2] A total of 233 nesting pairs of ivory gulls were recorded in the mid-1970s. Variable numbers of non-breeders, up to about 200, also were recorded.
A marine channel, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) long and 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) wide, between Snow Hill Island and Seymour Island. First surveyed in 1902 by SwedAE, 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjöld .
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
The La Meseta Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during much of the Paleogene on Seymour Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.It is noted for its fossils, which include both marine organisms and the only terrestrial vertebrate fossils from the Cenozoic of Antarctica.
North Seymour Island (Spanish: Isla Seymour Norte) is a small island near Baltra Island in the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. It was formed by uplift of a submarine lava formation and is now covered with low, bushy vegetation. It has an area of 1.9 km 2 (0.73 sq mi) and a maximum elevation of 28 meters (92 ft). There is no permanent population ...
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.
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