Astor Island

Astor Island
	Astor Island (right), in the background: Mount Friesland
Waters	New Plymouth , Osogovo Bay
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Geographical location	62 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 10 ′ W Coordinates: 62 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 10 ′ W

Astor Island is an island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between rugged Iceland and the west coast of the Livingston Island belonging Byers Peninsula .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took the first aerial photographs of the island between 1955 and 1957 and carried out a survey between 1957 and 1958. A new mapping by British scientists took place in 2008. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after B. Astor, crew member of the sealer Jane Maria , who took rock samples from the South Shetland Islands to the Lyceum of Natural History (now the American Museum of Natural History in New York ).

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