Investigating the Focal Mechanisms of the August 4th, 2003, $$M_{w}$$ 7.6, South Orkney Islands Earthquake and its Aftershocks Sequence

2018 ◽  
pp. 377-387
Author(s):  
M. P. Plasencia Linares ◽  
M. Guidarelli ◽  
M. Russi ◽  
G. F. Panza
Keyword(s):  
Focal Mechanisms ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
South Orkney Islands

scholarly journals Identification of marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for penguins around the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 10520-10529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria P. Dias ◽  
Ana Paula Bertoldi Carneiro ◽  
Victoria Warwick-Evans ◽  
Colin Harris ◽  
Katharina Lorenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
South Orkney Islands

scholarly journals The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–1904: reconstructing the missing geological report

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Stone
Keyword(s):  
Research Programme ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
Unpublished Work ◽  
Antarctic Expedition ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Quality Reports ◽  
Archive Material

The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–1904) made the first topographical survey and scientific investigation of Laurie Island, one of the South Orkney Islands, and completed an extensive oceanographical research programme in the Scotia and Weddell Seas. When the expedition returned to Scotland, the leader, William Speirs Bruce, embarked on an ambitious attempt to publish the expedition's scientific results in a series of high-quality reports. Sadly, by the time it came to the eighth volume (on geology) his funds were exhausted, and the series was abandoned. Nevertheless, many of the contributions that had been intended for that volume were produced; some were published elsewhere whilst unpublished proofs and archive notes survive for others. From these various sources the volume as planned by Bruce can be reconstructed. The key contributor was J. H. H. Pirie, a medical doctor and primarily the expedition's surgeon. Despite his limited relevant experience his geological observations were commendable, with the notable exception of an important palaeontological misidentification that was inexplicably supported by eminent British experts. The archive material illuminates the background to Pirie's contributions and the ways in which his unpublished work came to be preserved.

Theudium Austroatlanticum (Verrucariaceae), A New Species from the South Orkney Islands

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Orange
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
Signy Island ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThelidium austroatlanticum sp. nov. is described from Signy island; it is characterized by an epilithic thallus, more or less appressed involucrellum, and 1-septate spores 30–40 μm long. Thelidium incavatum is also reported for Signy Island.

scholarly journals Using habitat models to identify marine important bird and biodiversity areas for Chinstrap Penguins Pygoscelis antarcticus in the South Orkney Islands

Polar Biology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Dias ◽  
V. Warwick-Evans ◽  
A. P. B. Carneiro ◽  
C. Harris ◽  
B. G. Lascelles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Habitat Models ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
Pygoscelis Antarcticus ◽  
South Orkney Islands

High-pressure medium-temperature metamorphism of semi-pelitic rocks in the Scotia Metamorphic Complex, Powell Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Vinagre da Costa ◽  
Renato de Moraes ◽  
Rudolph Allard Johannes Trouw ◽  
Luiz Sérgio Amarante Simões ◽  
Julio Cezar Mendes
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Metamorphic Complex ◽  
Medium Temperature ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
Pressure Medium ◽  
Pelitic Rocks

Conservation on the High Seas: Developing the Concept of the High Seas Marine Protected Areas

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen N. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Seas

Abstract This article explores developments in connection with marine protected areas (MPAs) on the high seas, beginning with a brief survey of existing high seas MPAs, recent initiatives such as the designation of the South Orkney Islands MPA, the creation of a network of OSPAR MPAs and the work undertaken by the UN General Assembly on developing a framework for oceans governance in areas beyond national jurisdiction. It considers: the absence of a clear legal basis for the creation of MPAs on the high seas; the relationship between MPA designation and traditional high seas freedoms; and the complex jurisdictional arrangements that govern activities on and in the high seas.

The South Orkney Islands

1936 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
H. R. M. ◽  
James W. S. Marr
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
South Orkney Islands
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