Anagram Islands
| Anagram Islands | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 12 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Nob Island | |
The Anagram Islands (literally translated from English anagram islands ) are a group of small islands and Rifffelsen off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located in the Wilhelm Archipelago between the Roca Islands and the Argentine Islands .
The area of the archipelago was in the Belgica Expedition (1897-1899) under Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , in the Fourth (1903-1905) and Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under Jean-Baptiste Charcot and the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) charted under John Rymill . A detailed mapping of the individual islands was carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey based on aerial photographs taken in 1958 during helicopter flights on board the Antarctic patrol boat HMS Protector . The names of the Roca Islands, the Cruls Islands and the Argentine Islands in the course of the Belgian and French expeditions were retained when the islands were assigned to the respective island groups. The remaining archipelago was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 based on the permutation of the island groups.
Web links
- Anagram Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anagram Islands on geographic.org (English)