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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Burke Island (Antarctica)Burke Island is an ice-covered island about 16 miles long and 6 miles wide, lying 37 miles southwest of Cape Waite, King Peninsula, in the Amundsen Sea. Burke Island is located at . Canisteo Peninsula (Antarctica)Canisteo Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, about 30 miles long and 20 miles wide, which projects between Ferrero Bay and Cranton Bay into the east extremity of Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the USS Canisteo, a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition. Pine Island Bay (Antarctica)Pine Island Bay () is a bay about 40 miles long and 30 miles wide, into which flows the ice of Pine Island Glacier, at the southeast extremity of Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the USS Pine Island, seaplane tender and flagship of the eastern task group of USN Operation Highjump which explored this area. Thwaites Glacier (Antarctica)Thwaites Glacier () is a broad glacier flowing into Amundsen Sea about 30 miles east of Mount Murphy, Marie Byrd Land. Though imperfectly delineated, the glacier has tremendous flow and in January 1966 had formed a large floating glacier tongue (40 miles long) and an extensive grounded iceberg tongue (70 miles long). Thwaites Glacier (Antarctica)Thwaites Glacier () is a broad glacier flowing into Amundsen Sea about 30 miles east of Mount Murphy, Marie Byrd Land. Though imperfectly delineated, the glacier has tremendous flow and in January 1966 had formed a large floating glacier tongue (40 miles long) and an extensive grounded iceberg tongue (70 miles long). List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands (Antarctica)This is a List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands. Sub-antarctic islands are islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica north of the Antarctic Circle (66° 33' 38"). | ||