Bates Island (Antarctica)
| Bates Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 49 ′ 16 ″ S , 65 ° 37 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
Bates Island is a narrow and 5 km long island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 5 km east of Jurva Point on Renaud Island .
The island is first recorded in Argentine maps from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the American oceanographer Charles Carpenter Bates (* 1918), a specialist in studies of sea ice .
Web links
- Bates Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bates Island on geographic.org (English)