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1 | Motu One (Society Islands) ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -15.8083 / -154.525 | Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands. Motu One is located 550 km northwest from Tahiti and 72 km northeast of Manuae, its closest neighbor. Motu One's reef encloses totally a lagoon without a pass (...) | |
2 | Society Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : -17.5333 / -149.833 | The Society Islands (or officially ';) are an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean. Politically, they are part of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. Geographically, they form part of Polynesia (...) | |
3 | Burscheid ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 51.0833 / 7.1138 | Burscheid is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town is known for its sub-communities (somewhat equivalent to the American concept of neighborhoods) and the town centre with its marketplace and churches. (...) | |
4 | ![]() | Electoral Palace, Koblenz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 50.3556 / 7.602 | The Electoral Palace (German: Kurfürstliches Schloss) in Koblenz, Germany, was the residence of the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, who commissioned the building in the late 18th century (...) |
5 | Leeward Islands (Society Islands) ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : -17.5333 / -149.8333 | The Leeward Islands (; , literally "Islands Under-the-Wind") are the western part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. They lie south of the Line Islands (part of Kiribati), east of the Cooks and north of the Austral Islands (also part (...) | |
6 | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (tr. ; –), a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe and subsequently became a leader of another (...) | |
7 | ![]() | CJD Christophorusschule Königswinter ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 50.6833 / 7.1872 | The CJD Christophorusschule Königswinter is a state recognized private, alternative school located in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia, on the border to Rhineland-Palatinate), and is run by the Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (Christian Youth Village Foundation of Germany – CJD) (...) |
8 | Peter I Island ![]() FeatureType : island Lat/Lng : -68.8333 / -90.5833 | Peter I Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, from Antarctica. It is claimed as a dependency of Norway, and along with Bouvet Island and Queen Maud Land comprises one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic (...) | |
9 | Belgian Antarctic Expedition ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -71.5167 / -85.2667 | The Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) of 1897 to 1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. (...) | |
10 | Bellingshausen Station ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : -62.1986 / -58.9605 | Bellingshausen Station (Russian: станция Беллинсгаузен) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) at Collins Harbour, on King George Island of the South Shetland Islands. It was one of the first research stations founded by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1968 (...) | |
11 | Annenkov Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : -54.4833 / -37.0833 | Annenkov Island is to the west of the main island of South Georgia. The Pickersgill Islands are to its southwest. It is irregularly shaped and long and high, lying off the south-central coast of South Georgia. (...) | |
12 | Amundsen's South Pole expedition ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 69.119 / -105.0199 | The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition (...) | |
13 | Maupiti (commune) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 316 Lat/Lng : -16.4456 / -152.256 | Maupiti is a commune of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune is in the administrative subdivision of the Leeward Islands. The commune of Maupiti is made up of the island of Maupiti proper with its surrounding islets emerging from the coral reef, with an (...) | |
14 | Imperial Abbey of Corvey ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 51.778 / 9.41 | The Imperial Abbey of Corvey or Princely Abbey of Corvey was a Benedictine abbey on the River Weser, 2 km northeast of Höxter, now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was one of the Imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages until 1792 when the abbey was dissolved and (...) | |
15 | Bellingshausen Plain ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -64.0 / -90.0 | Bellingshausen Plain , also known as Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, is an undersea plain parallel to the continental rise in the Bellingshausen Sea, named for Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, commander of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (1818–1821) (...) | |
16 | Mount Monique ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.764 / -75.3742 | Mount Monique is a mountain, about 600 m high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, at the western end of the Marion Nunataks on the north coast of Charcot Island in the east Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica. (...) | |
17 | Ingomar, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 37.1803 / -120.9683 | Ingomar is an unincorporated community in Merced County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad northwest of Los Banos, at an elevation of 92 feet (28 m). A post office operated at Ingomar from 1890 to 1921 (...) | |
18 | Naitaba ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : -17.0167 / -179.2833 | Naitaba Island (Naitauba,"Naitauba (Variant)" , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Naitaba"Naitaba (Variant) " , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) "Naitamba Island (Approved)" , United States National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyHenderson, George Cockburn (...) | |
19 | Mount Martine ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.741 / -75.1634 | Mount Martine is a massive mountain, about high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, overlooking the north shore of Charcot Island, south of Cheesman Island, in the east Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica. (...) | |
20 | Marion Nunataks ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.758 / -75.2904 | The Marion Nunataks are a small group of nunataks rising to about on Charcot Island, in the eastern Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica. They form a 12 km chain of rocky outcrops on the mid-north coast of the island, stretching from Mount Monique at the western end to Mount Martine in the east. (...) | |
21 | Ablation Point – Ganymede Heights Antarctic Specially Protected Area ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -70.8 / -68.5 | The Ablation Point – Ganymede Heights Antarctic Specially Protected Area is a 180 km2 mountainous tract of land on the eastern side of Alexander Island in the Bellinghausen Sea, west of Palmer Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It has been designated Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No (...) | |