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Mount Plymouth or Mount Osorno is a conspicuous peak rising to 520 m (1,710 ft) in the northeast extremity of Dryanovo Heights , Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . The peak has precipitous and partly ice-free northern slopes, and surmounts Teteven Glacier to the northwest, Quito Glacier to the northeast and Traub Glacier to the southeast.

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6-726: The feature was charted by the Discovery Investigations and named after the city of Plymouth , England . The peak is located at 62°27′44″S 59°48′58.5″W  /  62.46222°S 59.816250°W  / -62.46222; -59.816250 which is 3.1 km (1.9 mi) east by north of Sevtopolis Peak , 5.1 km (3.2 mi) west-southwest of Spark Point , 4.47 km (2.78 mi) north-northeast of Tile Ridge and 4.9 km (3.0 mi) northeast of Lloyd Hill (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1947, Argentine in 1953, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009). This Greenwich Island location article

12-502: A report on Rock Specimens by GW Tyrrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE) A L Nelson RNR Plate XXXII Plates XXXIII - XXXVIII with a Description of a New Species from South Georgia Plate XXXIX Plates XL - XLIV Charts 1 - 4 Plates I - IV Plates VI - XVII Arthur Earland FRMS Plate I Plates II - III Plate IV Assistant keeper in the Department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History) Plates I - VI Lecturer in zoology at

18-663: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean . They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide

24-485: The marine laboratory, Discovery House , built in 1925 at King Edward Point and occupied until 1931. The scientists lived and worked in the building, travelling half a mile or so across King Edward Cove to the whaling station at Grytviken to work on whales as they were brought ashore by commercial whaling ships. Vessels used were: Results of the investigations were printed in the Discovery Reports. This

30-534: The scientific background to stock management of the commercial Antarctic whale fishery. Discovery Investigations contributed greatly to knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on and their habitat's oceanography, while charting the local topography, including Atherton Peak . They continued until 1951, with the final report published in 1980. Collected specimens are in the Discovery Collections . Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in

36-696: Was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press , and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences . Many were printed as individual reports rather than in large volumes. Pages/Plates/Charts Plates I - VI Plates VII - XVIII A C Hardy MA N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc Plates XIX - XXIV with Notes on Other Seals Found at South Georgia Plates XXV - XLIV J F G Wheeler MSc Plates XLV - LVI Plate I Plate II Plates III - IV Plate V Plates VI - VII Plates I - X Plates XI - XXXI (With

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