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Cape Sibbald

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Cape Sibbald (73°54′S 165°23′E / -73.9, 165.383) is a cliffed cape at the southwest margin of Lady Newnes Bay on the coast of Victoria Land. It marks the southwest extremity of the Mountaineer Range at the terminus of Aviator Glacier. Sighted in February 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for Lieutenant (later Cdr.) John Sibbald of the Erebus. This article incorporates text from... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Cape Sibbald

    Cape Sibbald (73°54′S 165°23′E / 73.9°S 165.383°E) is a cliffed cape at the southwest margin of Lady Newnes Bay on the coast of Victoria Land. It marks the southwest extremity of the Mountaineer Range at the terminus of Aviator Glacier.
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    Lady Newnes Bay

    Lady Newnes Bay is a bay about 60 mi long in the western Ross Sea, extending along the coast of Victoria Land from Cape Sibbald to Coulman Island. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900, led by Carstens Borchgrevink.
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    Aviator Glacier

    Aviator Glacier is major valley glacier, over 60 miles (96 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms the Aviator Glacier Tongue. This floating ice tongue extends into the water for about 25 kilometres (16 mi).
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    1641

    November 4 – A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action at Cape St Vincent. ... April 15 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
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    Puerto Williams

    Puerto Williams has been instrumental for asserting sovereignty around Cape Horn and supporting Chile's Antarctic bases. ... PSG Sibbald
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    Blue whale

    The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales (called Mysticeti). ... Other common names for the blue whale have included the Sibbald's rorqual (after Sir Robert Sibbald), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.
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    Blue Whale

    The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales (called Mysticeti). ... Other common names for the blue whale have included the Sibbald's rorqual (after Sir Robert Sibbald), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.
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    Workington

    Thomas Cape M.B.E (1868–1947) - Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 1918 to 1945. ... Bishop Desmond Sibbald
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    Canadian Newsmaker of the Year (Time)

    Sibbald, Peter (1997-12-29–1998-01-05), [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Others Who Shaped 1997: Paul Martin"], Time Canadian Edition: 72–73 ... ↑ [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Time names Nortel CEO Newsmaker of the Year"], Cape Breton Post: 6, 2000-12-19
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    George Buchanan

    George Buchanan (February, 1506 - 28 September 1582), was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. ... In addition to these works, Buchanan wrote in prose Chamaeleon, a satire in Scots against Maitland of Lethington, first printed in 1711; a Latin translation of Linacre's Grammar (Paris, 1533); Libellus de Prosodia (Edinburgh, 1640); and Vita ab ipso scripta biennio ante mortem (1608), edited by R. Sibbald (1702).

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