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5 unusual facts about King George Island


4 Deserts

In 2010, the race was held on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland islands and home to many national scientific bases; Deception Island, which is the caldera of a live volcano, and a former whaling station; and Dorian Bay on the Antarctic mainland.

The Last Desert 2010 took place in November of that year in King George Island, Deception Island, and Dorian Bay.

Colobanthus quitensis

It occurs from Mexico until the northern continental edge of Antarctica Antarctic Peninsula, as well as in several Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands (South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands or King George Island).

Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith

From 1948 to 1950 he was the base leader for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (now the British Antarctic Survey) on King George Island.

Stanisław Baranowski

In January 1978, while sleeping near the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, he was poisoned by gas escaping from a leaking cylinder.



see also

Telefon

Telefon Point, a point west of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island

Telefon Rocks, group of rocks in King George Island, the South Shetland Islands