Penguin Watch Talk

New Sites from November 2016

  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    To help with comments about the new sites from November 2016 we have numbered them below. Either we will find out their real names, and/or a nickname will suggest itself over time. This thread is locked, so if you would like to suggest a nickname either make a comment after marking a picture, in which case start your comment 'Nickname'. Thank you 😃

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    'DragonEyes' Thanks to grannieannie for this nickname:

    Identified as Cuverville Island by Sitandslide here: https://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ000ax58

    and here: https://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ000b7tx

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    'Boatwrecks'. Luckily yshish recognized the boatwrecks here, and coldcounter confirmed. They are in Mikkelsen Harbour on D'Hainaut Island. Two notable land formations are highlighted.

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    Site1 . New name: SheathbillWalk Note the camera angle changes over the months so much so that I've ringed three identifiable rocks/formations.
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    SunsetStrip (was Site2 )

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    Site3 . There's a peculiar 'headless seal' shaped rock in this one, so it's now called 'SealRock'
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    Site4. We've named this 'TheChannel' and thanks to bienle123 for that suggestion

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    Site5. Nicknamed by bienle123 as 'RockSlide'. Looks a lot like Site 3 at first glance. But this has a few large central blocks of rock near the picture centre, and has a long view to a distant area of land top right (Site 3 has a beach at that point of the picture).

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    Site6. The square block shows how the camera has changed angle slightly over time. Nicknamed 'SteepStep'

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    Site7. The rock in the bottom left hand corner is the identifier for this site during darkness. Thanks to suzeroo for her comment on the lower picture so the nickname is 'SunChicks'

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    Thanks to asb2718 for the inspiration to name this site 'Maccapolis'

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    Although Verde is not a new site it has now been identified by @SarahBlue and @Sitandslide as Barrientos Island (or 'Aitcho' Islands)

    http://www.ats.aq/siteguidelines/documents/Barrientos_e.pdf

    And I am exceptionally excited to report that an article in the Huffington post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/barrientos-island-antarctica-ice-free_n_5650827.html

    which contained this picture which should be very recognisable - note the small point of land! I think that this might be Verde - would feel better about it if I could see a camera pole. The date of the Huffington picture is March 2014, but the date of the picture is unknown:

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