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Place or Ship name	All places and ships 1300 nautical miles (2500 km) south of Hobart and 100 nautical miles (185 km) from the Antarctic coast Adare, Cape Adelaide Island Akademik Federov Akademik Shokalski Alexander Island Amery Ice Shelf Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Ann, Cape Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Anvers Island Arctowski Station Argentina Artigas, Base Asuka Camp Auckland Islands Aurora Australis Austral Leader Australia Austria Balleny Islands Barton Peninsula Bay of Whales Beaver Lake east coast, McRobertson Land Belgium Belgrano Belgrano II Belgrano II: 77?52'29"S, 34?37'37"W Belgrano III Berlin, Germany Bird Island Bismarck Strait Bonn Boulder, Colorado, USA. Bouvetoya Brazil Brazil Bremen, Germany Bremerhaven, Germany Bremerhaven, Germany. Brest, France Brighton near Adelaide, South Australia Brussels Buenos Aires Bulgaria Bunger Hills C130 Hercules Cairns Cambridge, UK. Canada Canberra, Australia Canberra, Australia. Cape Denison Cape Grafton Cape Horn Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa. Casey Casey & Mawson stations. Casy, Davis and Mawson Chamonix, France. Chile China Christchurch Christchurch New Zealand Clermont-Ferrand, France Coats Land Colombia Commandant Charcot Commonwealth Bay Concepcion, Chile. Concordia, (France & Italy). Crozier, Cape Cuba Curitiba, Brazil Danco Coast Darling Habour, Sydney Darling Habour, Sydney. Davis Davis & Mawson Davis and Mawson Davis, Casey & Mawson Davis, Macquarie Island, Amery Ice shelf, Mawson. Davis, Mawson, Casey & Macquarie Island Decepcion /Arg./ Deymos Dome Fuji Station Drake's Passage Dronning Maud Land Druzhnaya 3 Druzhnaya 4 Dumont d'Urville Base Dundee Island Duxton Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand Ecuador Edgeworth David Base In The Bunger Hills Elephant Island Enderby Land Erebus, Mount Esperanza /Arg./ Estonia Evohe FRV Southern Surveyor FTV BLUEFIN FV Austral Leader Falkland Islands Federal Republic of Germany Ferrar Glacier Filchner Ice Shelf Finland France Gabriel de Castilla, Refugio Galindez Island Gaussberg Geelong, Australia General Bernado O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula Geo Arctic Georg von Neumayer German Democratic Republic Gough Island Graham Land Great Wall Greece Greenwich Island Guatemala HMAS Australia HMAS Hobart HMAS Labuan HMAS Melville HMAS PERTH HMAS Stalwart HMAS Wyatt Earp HMNZS Tutira HMS St Austell Bay Halley, /Brit./ Hanseatic Heard Island Heard Island & Altas Cove Heard Island & Macquarie Island Heard Island & McDonald Island Heard Island, Davis, Amery Ice Shelf Hobart Hobart, Australia. Hobart, Tasmania Hope bay Hughes Bay Ildefonso Ile Amsterdam Iles Crozets Iles Kerguelen Iles Kerguelen India Italy Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA. Japan Jena, Germany John Ross Joides Resolution Juan Carlos I, Base Kapitan Khlebnikov Keller Peninsula Kemp Land King George Island Kingston, Hobart. Tasmania Kingston, Tasmania Kingston, Tasmania. Kingston, Tasmanis Kista Dan Kruger National Park, South Africa Kyoto, Japan. L'Astrolabe LST 3501 (later HMAS Labuan) Lady Franklin Lambert Glacier Lanzhou, China Laurie Island Law Base Law Dome Leningrad, USSR. Lewis Island & Chick Island Lima Livingstone, Isla London, England London, England. Luitpold Coast MS Nanok S MS Nella Dan MS Thala Dan MV Homlea MV Icebird MV Magga Dan MV Nella Dan MV Southern Supporter MV Thala Dan MV Tottan MV Vasily Golovnin MacRobertson Land Machu Picchu Station Macquarie Island Macquarie Island & Davis Macquarie Island Station Macquarie Island, Casey, Mawson. Macquarie and Heard Island Madrid, Spain Madrid, Spain. Maitri Marambio, isla Marie Byrd Land Marine Plain Refuge Marion Dufresne Marion Island Martin, Mount Mawson Mawson Station Mawson, Davis & Casey Mawson, Davis and Casey Stations Mawson, Davis, Casey & Macquarie Island McDonald Island McDonald Island, Heard Island McDonald Islands McMurdo Station Melbourne, Australia. Melchior /Arg./ Mendoza, Argentina. Menzies, Mount Mertz Glacier Polynya Mertz Glacier Polynya, Adelie Land. Southern Ocean Mirny Mizuho /Nip./ Molodezhnaya Moscow, USSR. Mt Erebus, Ross Island. Netherlands New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand Scott Base Newcastle, NSW. Norway Novolazarevskaja, nauchnaja stancija /SSSR/ Oceanic Odyssey Orcadas /Arg./ Oslo Oslo, Norway. Other transport POINT GEOLOGIE Palmer /USA/ Paris Paris, France. People's Republic of China Peru Peru Peter I Island Petrel /Arg./ Poland Polar Bird Polar Duke Polar Pioneer Polar Queen Polar Sea Port Martin /Fr./ Presidente Frei /Chile/ Presidente Gabriel Gonzales Videla /Chile/ Primavera /Arg./ Prince Charles Mountains Prince Charles Mountains, Commonwealth Bay, Prinsesse Astrid Kyst Progress 1 Prydz Bay Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand. RAAF Catalina Flying Boat RRS Discovery II RSV Discoverer Republic of Korea Reykjavik, Iceland Rio de Janeiro River Fitzroy Robert Island Rome, Italy. Ross Ice Shelf Ross Island Ross Sea Rothera /Brit./ Russian Federation SANAE /S.Afr./ SMALL ISLAND DEBBENHAM San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. San Diego, California, USA. Santiago Santiago, Chile. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sapporo, Japan Scott Base /N.Z./ Seattle, USA Seoul, South Korea. Seymour Island Shirase Sienna, Italy Signy Island (Base H) /Brit./ Sir Hubert Wilkins Snares Islands Snow Dragon Snow Hill Island Sobral /Arg./ Sofia, Bulgaria Sorrento, Italy South Africa South America South Australia South Georgia South Orkney Islands South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Headquarters, Apia, Samoa South Pole, Antarctica South Sandwich Islands South Shetland Islands Southampton, UK Southern Champion Southern Ocean Southern Ocean & Macquarie Island Southern Ocean: Tasmania to Antarctica Southern Supporter St. Petersburg Station Biologique, Paimpont, France Strait of Magellan Sweden Switzerland Sydney Syowa /Nip./ Talg Falls Tangaroa Target Theatre, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Tasmania Teniente Camara /Arg./ Teniente Jubany /Arg./ Teniente Matienzo /Arg./ Terra Nova Bay Thala Valley The Hague The Hague, The Netherlands. Thwaites Glacier Tongue, Larsen B Iceshelf Tierra del Fuego To be selected Tokyo Tokyo, Japan. Traverse 93/94 Traverse 94/95 Tromso, Norway Tromso, Norway. Turkey USS Glacier Ukraine Umea, Sweden United Kingdom United States of America University of California, Santa Barbara Uruguay Utrecht Varese, Italy Various. Vasily Golovnin Venezuela Venice, Italy. Vesleskarvet Vestfjella Vestfold Hills Vienna, Austria Vina del Mar Vina del Mar & Madrid Vostok Subglacial Highlands Vostok, nauchnaja stancija /SSSR/ Warsaw Washington Washington DC Wellington Wellington, New Zealand Wellington, New Zealand. Western Antarctic Peninsula Wilhelm II Land Wilkes Wilkes & Vostok Wilkes Land Wsahington D.C. Xuelong Yelcho /Chile/ Zhongshan Wan southwest of Rottnest Island, Western Australia
Keywords	Pick any number of keywords that are relevant. Number of events are in brackets. Select all: Yes No AAE   (1) ACAP   (1) ANARE   (25) Antarctic Culture   (31) Antarctic Treaty   (181) Antarctic stations   (5) Atmospheric research   (11) Aviation   (45) Awards   (12) BANZARE   (1) CCAMLR   (1) COMNAP   (1) Charting   (9) Climate change   (37) Communication   (10) Conferences & seminars   (34) Conservation   (12) Contamination   (18) Data management   (10) Discovery   (62) Environmental Impact   (34) Environmental Protection   (1) Exploration   (102) Festival   (1) Fish research   (10) Fishing   (15) Geological Research   (12) Glaciology   (30) Global warming   (3) Historic   (127) Human Impact Research   (9) Humanities in Antarctica   (6) Information technology   (2) Krill research   (20) Lake Research   (9) Land surveys   (15) Library   (1) Management & Administration   (61) Marine mammals   (4) Marine research   (58) Medical Research   (3) Medical incidents   (22) Meteorite   (1) Oceanography   (37) Operations   (245) Pack-ice   (27) Palaeontology   (1) Penguin research   (13) Plankton research   (8) Plant research   (6) Press Release   (184) Publication   (6) Regulation of Antarctica   (30) Remediation   (17) Restoration & Conservation   (14) Science grants   (1) Scientific Research   (122) Scientific exploration   (19) Seabird research   (14) Seal research   (19) Sealing   (18) Shipping   (470) Space climate   (5) Sub antarctic islands   (2) Surviving the Antarctic winter   (26) Technology   (21) Telemedicine   (1) Tourism in Antarctica   (14) Voyage records   (22) Waste management   (11) Whale research   (8) Whaling   (14) Wind Turbines   (7) alien species   (1) mail   (1) marine instruments   (1) marine invasions   (1) ocean technology   (1) sea ice   (1)
Significance of the Event	greater than greater than and equal equal less than and equal less than Any scale 1 - insignificant 2 3 4 - moderate 5 6 7 - very significant
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