Inaccessible Islands
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inaccessible-islands-266-13917744
title:
Inaccessible Islands
text:
The Inaccessible Islands are a group of small precipitous islands ranging from 120 to 215 m high, the westernmost features of the South Orkney Islands, lying 20 km (12 mi) west of Coronation Island in Antarctica. They were discovered in December 1821 by Captain George Powell, a British sealer in the sloop James Monroe, though it is possible they are the "Seal Islands" seen by Nathaniel Palmer a year earlier. The islands were so named by Powell because of their appearance of inaccessibility. They
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Islands of Antarctica
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Islands
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date modified:
2023-12-01T22:12:25Z
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13
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