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3 unusual facts about D. antarctica


D. antarctica

Dicksonia antarctica, the soft tree fern, man fern or Tasmanian tree fern, an evergreen tree fern species native to parts of Australia

Durvillaea antarctica, a kelp species found in southern New Zealand and Chile

Deschampsia antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, a flowering plant species native to Antarctica


Daniel Island, Antarctica

Named by Eklund for Commissaryman 2d Class David Daniel, U.S. Navy, cook and Navy support force member of the 1957 wintering party at Wilkes Station during the IGY.

Eric Judy

On the album The Moon & Antarctica, producer Brian Deck used Judy's direction at various times as guidance for additional sonic sounds and fills.

Fog Bay, Antarctica

It was so named in July 1911 by the winter journey party, led by Edward Adrian Wilson of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, because of the thick white fog they encountered there.

Leckie Range, Antarctica

Named by ANCA for Squadron Leader Douglas Leckie, RAAF, who commanded the Antarctic Flight at Mawson Station, 1956, and who piloted the Auster aircraft from which Phillip Law sighted and plotted these peaks.

Louis Bernacchi

He joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds.


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