Palmer Archipelago

noun

1. a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the NW coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Palmer Archipelago

noun

1. Former name: Antarctic Archipelago. a group of islands between South America and Antarctica: part of the British Antarctic Territory, formerly the British colony of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies. (Claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)

Example Sentences

In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Fran�ais, explored the Palmer Archipelago.

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