Abshire Island
| Abshire Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Gould Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 36 ′ 3 ″ S , 71 ° 58 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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| length | 520 m | |
| width | 140 m | |
The Abshire Island is a small island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the easternmost of the three Gould Islands in the southwest of Marguerite Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Captain Joseph Abshire from the research vessel RV Laurence M. Gould of the US National Science Foundation , who sighted the Gould Islands in January 2009 and determined their position.
Web links
- Abshire Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abshire Island on geographic.org (English)