Victoria Land, Antarctica. Franklin Island was discovered on January 27, 1841 by James Clark Ross, and named for Sir John Franklin, the noted Arctic...

Franklin Island may refer to: Franklin Island (Antarctica), an Antarctic island in the Ross Sea Franklin Island (Greenland), an island of Greenland in...

Semisopochnoi Island Socorro Island Takuu Atoll Tikopia Southern Ocean Deception Island Franklin Island (Antarctica) Laurie Island Peter I Island Das schönste deutsche...

Roosevelt Island is the second largest ice rise of Antarctica and world-wide, after Berkner Island. Despite its name, it is not an island, since the bedrock...

Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation...

Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Penguin Island was sighted in January 1820 by a British expedition under Edward...

Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded...

Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate...

the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the...

U.S government to establish permanent settlement in Antarctica. Commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Richard.E Byrd supplied much of...