Palmer Archipelago

American  

noun

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

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Palmer Archipelago British  

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)

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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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