Arrowsmith Island

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Arrowsmith Island
Waters Southern ocean
Archipelago Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands
Geographical location 65 ° 30 ′ 28 ″  S , 65 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  W Coordinates: 65 ° 30 ′ 28 ″  S , 65 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  W
Arrowsmith Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
Arrowsmith Island
length 2.53 km
width 900 m

Arrowsmith Iceland (English, Bulgarian остров Ароусмит ostrow Arousmit ) is in west, southwest-east-northeast orientation 2.53 km long and 0.9 km wide island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . As one of the Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 1.43 km southeast of Pickwick Island , 0.5 km south of Tupman Island and 0.9 km northwest of Fizkin Island .

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the British cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823), who published a map of the southern polar region in 1794.

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