Barlow Island
| Barlow Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 52 ′ S , 62 ° 20 ′ W | |
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Barlow Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is one mile west-northwest of Cape Smith , the northern tip of Smith Island .
The name goes back to the British polar traveler Henry Foster on his Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1828 to 1831. Foster named a supposed cape on the east coast of Smith Island as Cape Barlow . Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1951 to 1952 showed that such a cape does not exist. For reasons of historical continuity, the name was transferred to the island described here. It is probably named after the British mathematician and physicist Peter Barlow (1776–1862).
Web links
- Barlow Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barlow Island on geographic.org (English)