Beer Island
| Beer Island | ||
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| Waters | Mudge passage | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 0 ′ 14 ″ S , 65 ° 40 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Beer Island (from English beer ' beer ' ) is a 1.5 km long island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately south of Jagged Island and 13 km west of Prospect Point .
The island was mapped and named by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Beer Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beer Island on geographic.org (English)