Afuera Islands
| Afuera Islands | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 20 ′ S , 61 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Afuera Islands are a group of three small islands north of Challenger Island and immediately opposite the southern access point to Hughes Bay off the west coast of West Antarctic Graham Land .
They were mapped by the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910). The name of the islands first appeared on maps of the Argentine government in 1957 and was probably given descriptively on the basis of their location on Hughes Bay; the Spanish afuera means something like “outside”.
Web links
- Afuera Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Afuera Islands on geographic.org (English)