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  • SS Black Osprey

    SS Black Osprey was a cargo ship for the American Diamond Lines and the British Cairn Line. She was formerly known as SS West Arrow when she was launched for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) during World War I.

  • SS Belgian

    The SS Belgian was a 5,287 ton steamship which was built in 1919, sold in 1934 becoming Amelia Lauro, seized in 1940 and renamed Empire Activity and sunk by a German U-boat in 1941.

  • SS Aenos (1944)

    Aenos was a 1,935 GRT Cargo ship that was built in 1944 as Rodenbek by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg, Germany. In 1945, she was seized by the Allies at Flensburg, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and was renamed Empire …

  • Rimo Muztagh

    The Rimo Muztagh is one of the most remote subranges of the Karakoram range. The southern part of Rimo Muztagh is in the Kashmir portion of far northwestern India, also claimed by Pakistan. The northern half, including the Rimo massif, is in the Sia…

  • Nintoku Seamount

    Nintoku Seamount or Nintoku Guyot is a seamount (underwater volcano) and guyot (flat top) in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain. It is a large, irregularly shaped volcano that last erupted 66 million years ago. Three lava flows have been sampled at…

  • Nimrod Islands

    The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn.

  • Mota'ain

    Mota'ain, also spelled Mota'in or Mota Ain, is a village in Bobonaro District in East Timor and is the country's main road border crossing into West Timor in Indonesia.

  • MY Titanic

    The motor yacht Titanic is a 1,900-tonne yacht that was formerly the Japanese Government's research/fishing vessel Toko Maru and later Kelso. In March 2010, she developed a leak while sailing in the Caribbean.

  • Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

    The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau. They are part of the U.S. state of Haw…

  • Jacquet Island

    Jacquet Island was a phantom island charted at about (47°N43°W) in the North Atlantic. Belief in its existence continued into the 19th century, when it was discussed as a possible midway point for the transatlantic telegraph cable.

  • Graveyard Seamounts

    The Graveyard Seamounts are a series of 28 small seamounts (underwater volcanoes) and ediffices located on the Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand. They cover about 140 km2 (54 sq mi), and stand out from the surrounding oceanic plateau that measures s…

  • Galápagos Microplate

    The Galápagos Microplate is a small tectonic plate off the west coast of South America near the Galapagos Islands. It differs from most other crustal plates in that it is rotating clockwise between three much larger crustal plates around it, the Naz…

  • Frigate action of 29 May 1794

    The frigate action of 29 May 1794—not to be confused with the much larger fleet action of 29 May 1794 that took place in the same waters at the same time—was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars between a Royal Navy frigate and …

  • Enderby Plain

    Enderby Plain (also known as Enderby Abyssal Plain or East Abyssal Plain) (60°S40°E) is an undersea plain (or abyssal plain), located off the coast of Enderby Land and Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. The name was approved by the U.S.

  • Bradley Land

    Bradley Land was the name Frederick Cook gave to a mass of land which he claimed to have seen between (84°20′N102°0′W) and (85°11′N102°0′W) during a 1909 expedition. He described it as two masses of land with a break, a strait, or an indentation b…

  • Bird Island Airport

    Bird Island Airport (IATA: BDI, ICAO: FSSB) is located on Bird Island in the Seychelles. The airport is currently only serviced by Air Seychelles, which flies chartered flights to Mahé.

  • Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study

    The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) is a long-term oceanographic study by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). Based on regular (monthly or better) research cruises, it samples an area of the western Atlantic Ocean nominally at …

  • Atriceps Island

    Atriceps Island is the southernmost of the Robertson Islands, lying 5 km (3 mi) south of the south-east end of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.

  • Amazon Canyon

    The Amazon Canyon is a submarine canyon within the Amazon Fan in the Atlantic Ocean, located approximately 200 mi (322 km) from the mouth of the Amazon River, near South America. It covers an area of 2,250 km2 (870 sq mi). It was formed in the mid t…

  • Aksai Chin Lake

    Aksai Chin Lake (Hindi: अक्साई चिन झील Aksā'ī cina jhīla, Chinese: 阿克赛钦湖; pinyin: Akesaiqin Hu) is an endorheic lake on the Aksai Chin Plateau. The plateau is considered by China as part of its national territory and is administered as part of Hotan…

  • Action of 10 February 1809

    The Action of 10 February 1809 was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, in which a British Royal Navy squadron chased and captured the French frigate Junon in the Caribbean Sea. Junon was on a mission to carry trade goods from the Îles d…

  • 99th meridian west

    The meridian 99° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

  • 89th meridian west

    The Meridian 89° West of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

  • 87th meridian west

    The meridian 87° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the S…

  • 81st meridian east

    The meridian 81° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

  • 68th meridian west

    The meridian 68° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the Sou…