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PCBs in the atmosphere of King George Island, Antarctica

Science of The Total Environment, 2003
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous anthropogenic compounds found even in the polar regions, mainly due to long-range atmospheric transport. In order to assess the occurrence of atmospheric PCBs in the vicinity of the Brazilian Antarctic Research Station (62 degrees 05'S, 58 degrees 23'W), a sampling survey was undertaken in the austral ...
R C, Montone, S, Taniguchi, R R, Weber
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Beach litter distribution in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020
In the Antarctic Peninsula, most important activities are touristic visits, from the second half of the 20th Century, and scientific investigation linked to 75 research stations. Beach litter content/abundance was investigated at 17 beaches in Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) and the type of plastic material was determined by Raman ...
Giorgio Anfuso, Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, Francisco Asensio-Montesinos, Rogério Portantiolo Manzolli, Luana Portz, Diego Andrés Villate Daza   +5 more
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Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from King George Island, Antarctica

Zootaxa, 2012
Twenty one species of shallow-water, benthic hydrozoans, belonging to nine families and fourteen genera, were found ina collection gathered from King George Island, South Shetland islands, during 2010 and 2011. Hydractinia angusta Hart-laub, 1904, Staurocladia charcoti (Bedot, 1908), Candelabrum penola (Manton, 1940), Orthopyxis norvegiae (Broch,1948),
Galea, Horia R., Schories, Dirk
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The Southern Elephant seal of King George Island

Polar Geography, 1979
Abstract The results of field‐station observations conducted during the wintering period December 1973 to January 1975 on King George (Waterloo) Island are described. The paper gives data on the numbers of the southern elephant seal, its distribution along the coast of Fildes Peninsula by seasons of the year, the age‐sex distribution of molting sites ...
L. A. Popov, V. I. Krylov
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Fish of Admiralty Bay (King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)

Polar Biology, 1992
The species composition of the ichthyofauna of Admiralty Bay, King George Island was determined from results of sampling using bottom trawls, gill-nets and long-lines. Thirty-five species from 24 genera and 10 families (Table 1) were found. The number of species increased with depth (e.g. 7 species at 100 m, 14 species at 255 m and 21 species at 540 m),
KrzysztofE. Skora, AlexeyV. Neyelov
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Activities on the King George Island group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Polar Record, 1985
AbstractKing George Island and Nelson Island, close together in the central South Shetland Islands, were discovered early in the 19th century and often visited by whalers and sealers. Whalers also used their harbours early in the present century. The first permanent station was established in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.
R. K. Headland, P. L. Keage
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Plant Communities on King George Island

2002
King George Island — the largest island in the South Shetland Islands archipelago — is included in the phytogeographical province of the maritime Antarctic. The maritime Antarctic also includes the western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, up to the southern part of the Marquerite Bay, and the archipelagos of the South Orkney Islands, South Sandwich ...
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Environmental management on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Polar Record, 1991
AbstractThis paper proposes management responses to problems perceived in an earlier paper on King George Island (Polar Record 27(162): 193–204, 1991). Available management instruments and barriers to solutions are reviewed, and new management approaches and tools postulated.
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King George Island — South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctic

2002
Admiralty Bay is a large, complex inlet in the southern coast of King George Island, South Shetland Islands (Fig. 3.1). The bay and the land area around it have been for over two decades focal points of terrestrial and marine research, covering a wide range of disciplines.
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Environmental Assessment of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

2012
Monitoring has been developed by Antarctic Programmes such as Antarctic New Zealand (www.antarcticanz.govt.nz) and the US Antarctic Programme (USAP) (http://www.usap.gov) considering expansion of human activities and inevitable environmental.
Rosalinda C. Montone, Cristina E. Alvarez, Márcia C. Bícego, Elisabete S. Braga, Tania A. S. Brito, Lúcia S. Campos, Roberto F. C. Fontes, Belmiro M. Castro, Thaïs N. Corbisier, Heitor Evangelista, Marcio Francelino, Vicente Gomes, Rosane G. Ito, Helena P. Lavrado, Neusa Paes Leme, Michel M. Mahiques, César C. Martins, Cristina R. Nakayama, Phan V. Ngan, Vivian H. Pellizari, Antonio B. Pereira, Monica A. V. Petti, Martin Sander, Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Rolf R. Weber   +24 more
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