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	South Orkney Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laurie Island is the easternmost of the islands.
		The other islands are the smaller Powell Island and Signy Island as well as a few tiny ones named Saddle Islands.
		Subsequently, the islands were frequently visited by sealers and whalers, but no thorough survey was ever done until the expedition of William Speirs Bruce on the Scotia in 1903, which overwintered at Laurie Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Orkney_Islands (441 words)

	Signy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Signy Island is a small sub-Antarctic island, 6.5 km long and less than 5 km wide.
		Signy station was established in 1947 primarily as a meteorological station.
		Signy was the centre of BAS biological science until 1995, when the marine component was transferred to Rothera.
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /Living_and_Working/Stations/Signy (237 words)

	Signy Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Signy Island is a small sub-antarctic island in the South Orkney Islands group at latitude 60°43' S and longitude 45°36' W. It is about 6.5 km long and 5 km wide and rises to 288 m above sea level.
		Signy Island was named by a Norwegian whaler after his wife.
		The British Antarctic Survey maintains a scientific station for research in biology since March 18, 1947, on the site of an earlier whaling station that had existed there from 1912 to 1929.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signy_Island (151 words)

	SCAR » Bulletin 143
		Lynch Island (latitude 60°39'10" S, longitude 45°36'25" W; area: 0.1 km2) is a small island situated at the eastern end of Marshall Bay in the South Orkney Islands, about 200 m south of Coronation Island and 2.4 km north of Signy Island (Map 1).
		The island is exposed to the south-west and to katabatic and föhn winds descending from Coronation Island to the north.
		Elsewhere on the island, the grass and, to a lesser extent, the pearlwort are frequent associates in other communities, especially stands of denser fellfield vegetation where there is quite high cover afforded by various mosses and lichens (particularly towards the western end of the northern terrace).
	www.scar.org /publications/bulletins/143/spa14 (5146 words)

	South Orkney Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is composed of two large islands (Coronation and Laurie) and a number of smaller islands and rocky islets and forms part of the British Antarctic Territory.
		Of the roughly 70 islands in the Orkneys,...
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068869 (770 words)

	Signy (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Signy was established in 1947, mainly as a meteorological station.
		Signy was the center of the BAS biological science until 1995, when the marine component was transferred to Rothera.
		The Signy Base is open from November to April with a maximum population of eight to ten.
	www.70south.com /resources/bases/signy (318 words)

	18 Nov - Arrival at Signy Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Also going ashore were a specialist team to remove asbestos from all the original Signy buildings which are to be demolished and removed from the island during the course of this season.
		Signy had only been opened up earlier in the week when the James Clark Ross dropped off the base personnel and much of the base cargo was put in at that time.
		Signy Island is one of the South Orkney Islands which lie at the northern edge of the Antarctic Treaty Area at 60S, 45W.
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /Living_and_Working/Diaries/RRS_Ernest_Shackleton/antarctic2001_2002/es07.html (1618 words)

	CRREL Alert - Full Record Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We studied the fossil remains of the common Antarctic oribatid mites, Alaskozetes antarcticus and Halozetes belgicae, in sediment cores from two lakes in adjacent catchments on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic.
		Mites colonized the island shortly after the ice sheet retreated and habitats became available.
		However, on Signy Island this prediction is complicated by a similarly recent and rapid expansion of the populations of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella), which has not occurred previously since deglaciation, damaging the mites' habitats and exerting a new set of ecological constraints.
	usgspubs.georef.org /C_C_N311.htm (282 words)

	South Orkney Islands - Linix Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The South Orkney Islands are a group of sub-antarctic islands situated at latitudes 60°50' to 60°83' S, and longitudes 44°25' to 46°25' W in the Southern Ocean.
		Coronation Island is the largest island; its highest point is Mount Nivea and rises to 1266 m above sea level.
		In total, these island have a surface of about 620 km²;, most of which is covered with ice.
	web.linix.ca /pedia/index.php/South_Orkney_Islands (393 words)

	Signy Island Antarctica
		Signy Island in the South Orkney's group is 4 miles long and less than 3 miles wide, lying to the south of the middle of Coronation Island.
		Unnamed at the time, the appearance of the island was roughly plotted on James Weddell's chart of 1825.
		The island was given it's name by Capt. Petter Sørlle, of the Norwegian whale-catcher Paal who made a running survey of the island in the 1912-13 season.
	www.coolantarctica.com /Community/FIDS%20gallery/signy_petter_sorlle.htm (846 words)

	Antarctic Philately: The peri-Antarctic Islands
		The islands and archipelagos mentioned here are referred to as peri-Antarctic, rather than sub-Antarctic, since many of them are similar in features despite their location outside the Antarctic Convergence Zone.
		This island is of volcanic origin along with one smaller island, Shag Island, 11 km to the north.
		The island is of sedimentary origin and covers 128 km²; with the highest elevation being Mt. Hamilton at 433 m.
	www.south-pole.com /peri.htm (1847 words)

	British Antarctic Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), formerly the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), is an institute of the Natural Environment Research Council, and has, for the last fifty years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent.
		BAS employs over 400 staff, and supports three stations in the Antarctic, at Rothera, Halley and Signy Island, and two stations on South Georgia, at King Edward Point and Bird Island.
		Four Twin Otter aircraft fitted with wheels and skis are operated from Rothera and Halley, while a wheels-only Dash-7 aircraft provides the inter-continental air-link from Rothera to the Falkland Islands, and flies inland to blue ice runways.
	hallencyclopedia.com /British_Antarctic_Survey (587 words)

	Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability Workshop - Noon Abstract
		At Signy Island in the South Orkneys (lat.
		Smith (1990) predicted past ice coverages at Signy Island based on radiocarbon dates of terrestrial mosses and came to a similar conclusion.
		Signy Island as a paradigm of biological and environmental change in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems.
	academics.hamilton.edu /workshops/antarctica/Abstracts/Noon.html (345 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - The Falkland Islands
		Signy (known as Signy Island until August 1977) wsa BAS' primary biological research station until 1996, when much of the science was transferred to Rothera station.
		Signy post office opened in March 1947, using the same canceller that had been used during the previous year at the second station, Cape Geddes, on Laurie Island.
		Horseshoe Island base was built in March 1955 for the purpose of survey, geology and meteorology.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/bat/bases-postmarks.htm (2694 words)

	TCS: Enviro-Sci - A CEO Cries Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, he mentions a scientific paper reporting winter temperatures on nine lakes on Signy Island, a 6 by 5 kilometer isle in the South Orkney Islands deep in the Southern Hemisphere.
		While lake temperature is unavailable prior to 1980, the air temperature at Signy Island has been recorded since 1947, and is plotted in the accompanying chart for Southern Hemisphere winter (July - August).
		First, note the good agreement between the short Signy Island record and Orcadas Island when the two records overlap, from 1947 to 1991, indicating the two records are valid for the region.
	www2.techcentralstation.com /1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-070202A (717 words)

	Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems
		With the changing distributions of krill, the fur seals may be moving to Signy Island to follow the krill patterns.
		The flora and fauna have no resilience of perturbation on either of the two islands, and the lowland environment is undergoing a possibly irreversible biotically induced transformation.
		Antarctic fur seals are a sub-polar migratory Otariid that are an increasingly dominant APEX predator in the South Shetland Islands region.
	kingfish.coastal.edu /marine/375/f2000swcp.htm (957 words)

	Management Plan for Moe Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whilst there is no evidence that research activities at Signy Island have significantly altered the ecosystems there, a major change has occurred in the low altitude terrestrial system as a result of the rapidly expanding Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) population.
		Plant communities on nearby Signy Island have been physically disrupted by trampling by fur seals and nitrogen enrichment from the seals’ excreta has resulted in replacement of bryophytes and lichens by the macro-alga Prasiola crispa.
		Moe Island, South Orkney Islands, is a small irregularly-shaped island lying 300 m off the southwestern extremity of Signy Island, from which it is separated by Fyr Channel.
	www-aadc.antdiv.gov.au /apa/aspa/sites/aspa109/ASPA109MoePlan.htm (1670 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		An unexpectedly rapid warming of lakes on a desolate Antarctic island is evidence of global warming, according to a 20-year study by British and Canadian scientists.
		There is permanent ice covering a large part of the island, but in summer, extensive areas of moss and some grasses are exposed, and there are numerous freshwater pools and lakes.
		The island’s isolated location allowed the researchers to come up with measurements that were not affected by local pollution or heating associated with cities.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news?id=1195 (600 words)

	Management Plan for (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At Lynch Island active management may be required in order to exclude Antarctic fur seal access to vegetated areas.
		Map 1: Lynch Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 110 in relation to the South Orkney Islands, showing the location of Signy Research Station (UK), and the location of the other protected areas in the region (Moe Island ASPA No. 109, Southern Powell Island ASPA No. 111, and Northern Coronation Island ASPA No. 114).
		Signy Research Station (UK) is 6.4 km south at Factory Cove, Borge Bay, on Signy Island.
	www-aadc.antdiv.gov.au /apa/aspa/sites/aspa110/ASPA110LynchPlan.htm (5070 words)

	DX News Letter 1271 November 28, 2001
		NIUE ISLAND, ZK2, OC-048 Mike, KM9D (CW), and YL Jan, KF4TUG (SSB), are momentarily on the air as ZK2MO and ZK2TO from Uluvehi in the northeast of the island.
		SIGNY ISLAND, VP8, AN-008 Mike, GM0HCO, recently active as VP8CMH/mm is now trying to activate Signy island (which belongs to the South Orkneys) signing VP8SIG from Factory Cove in Borge Bay.
		Rurutu Island is situated 572 km south of Tahiti Island at the position of 22 deg 26' South and 151 deg 20' West.
	www.ng3k.com /Dxnl/dxnl1271.html (1229 words)

	03 Mar - Signy, King Edward Point and Bird Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Personnel not directly involved in the cargo operations were allowed ashore to have a look around the island and stretch their legs.
		One improvement made to the jetty at Signy and which proved to be a great success, was the building of a 'railway' for transporting the heavy bundles to Tula.
		During our stay at Signy the ship uplifted some 400 cubic metres of waste, which comprised approximately 90% of the demolition waste.
	bsweb.nerc-bas.ac.uk /Living_and_Working/Diaries/RRS_Ernest_Shackleton/antarctic2001_2002/es21.html (1110 words)

	Signy Island from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Signy is a wise old woman, who knows about ancient magic.
		Signy is right Signy is well known for spending most of the year disguised as a very...
		Rùnar's girlfriend Signy was there too, but she was feeling rather ill and didn't talk much.
	www.ljseek.com /search/Signy%20Island (247 words)

	POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BREEDING SOUTH POLAR SKUAS OF UNKNOWN AGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The same relationship appears to be valid between South Polar Skuas at Crozier and Brown Skuas at Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands (Burton, 1968).
		Annual breeding success at Cape Crozier averaged 0.34 chicks for 8 years while at Signy Island the 3-year average was 1.18 chicks (Table 5).
		The mean minimum distance between nests in one season at Crozier was 19 m (Table 1) while at Signy Island it was approxi- mately 190 m.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v088n04/p0805-p0814.html (6464 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		After teaching for a couple of years in south London and Tonbridge, Kent, in 1974 he joined the British Antarctic Survey (Bas) as a soil microbiologist, spending two winters at Signy Island, in the maritime Antarctic, where he made the first detailed study of Antarctic microbial populations in relation to carbon respiration.
		David's abiding passion for polar regions, and his deep appreciation of the Antarctic environment, were firmly established during his time on Signy Island.
		Only someone with David's persistence could have tracked down Signe Sorlle, after whom Signy Island was named by her whaling captain husband in 1912; David's picture of Signe, at home in Norway, still hangs in Signy Base.
	www.stevequayle.com /High.Jump/030804.David.Wynn-Williams.html (829 words)

	The clean-up of abandoned British stations - removal of facilities at Signy Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr John Shears (BAS Environmental Officer) supervised a team of eight contractors from Morrison Construction on Signy Island, where they undertook the demolition and removal of the disused facilities at Signy research station.
		RRS Ernest Shackleton took out a total of 800 cubic metres of wastes from Signy Island for recycling or safe disposal either in the Falkland Islands or UK.
		During the clean-up, great efforts were made to protect the local environment, prevent pollution and litter, and recycle waste building materials.
	www.bas.ac.uk /BAS_Science/Highlights/2001/signy.html (233 words)

	Signy Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Signy Island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Signy Island contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Signy_Island (173 words)

	Clade Perseverance From Mesozoic to Present: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Pattern and Process -- ...
		Number and proportion of cyclostome and cheilostome species and recruited colonies, identified at Signy Island, Antarctica, and plotted as a function of time.
		Island, although there were months when there were no recruits
		Observations made at Signy Island, Antarctica; data from Barnes and Dick (2000).
	www.biolbull.org /cgi/content/full/203/2/161 (5567 words)

	South Orkney Islands
		Four major islands (Coronation, Signy, Powell, and Laurie Islands), several minor ones with offlying islets and rocks of sedimentary origin in the Southern Ocean.
		The South Orkney Islands lie in the Scotia Sea about 600 km northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1440 km southeast of Tierra del Fuego or 800 km south of the Antarctic convergence.
		They were discovered by American and British sealers in 1821 and have since served as a base for Scotch, French, and Argentine sealing and scientific expeditions.
	www.ndsu.edu /subantarctic/southorkney.htm (133 words)

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