The Canopus Crags (71°10′S66°38′W / 71.167°S 66.633°W / -71.167; -66.633) are a cluster of peaks of 3 nautical miles (6 km) extent, located between Vela Bluff and Carina Heights along the south side of Ryder Glacier, in Palmer Land. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the star Canopus in the constellation of Carina.[1]
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Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the star Canopus in the constellation of Carina. "CanopusCrags". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
part of Ryder Glacier. It is located 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of CanopusCrags and 11 nautical miles (20 km) from the west coast Palmer Land and was...
Cilician coast became their main area for anchorage and encampment and the Crags of Cilicia (the promontory of Coracesium) became their main base. It also...
needed] The settlers built a Doric Temple to Athena on top of the dominant crag in 530 BC. From this temple Hermias of Atarneus, a student of Plato, ruled...
1920s as a Boy Scout. Balcombe continued his love affair with the Lakeland crags during an early posting to Reading, Berkshire, by joining a mountaineering...
trawler's troubles had spread, and the three Billcliffe brothers, who owned the Crag Hotel by the beach, rushed to the scene and waded into the surf and during...
situated on such a great round mass of rock and a more or less circular crag towers over the ruins. Another source, Panyassis, also mentions an eponymous...
origin of its Ancient Greek name ὀφρῦς (ophrus), meaning 'brow of a hill', 'crag'. Ophryneion was supposedly one of a series of cities founded by Akamas the...
HMS Hollyhock, HMS Lance, Q-111 Luzon, USS Napa, Sagaing, HMAS Vampire 10 Apr: USS Canopus 11 Apr: Empire Cowper, USS Finch, HMS Kingston 13 Apr: El Occidente, Empire...
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