Biggs Island

This article describes the Antarctic island in Marguerite Bay. For the island of the same name in the archipelago of South Georgia in the South Atlantic see Biggs Island (South Georgia) .

Biggs Island
Waters	Marguerite Bay
Archipelago	Henkes Islands
Geographical location	67 ° 48 ′  S , 68 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 67 ° 48 ′  S , 68 ° 53 ′  W

Biggs Island is a small island off the southern tip of Adelaide Island on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the easternmost of the Henkes Islands .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 after Thomas Biggs from the Falkland Islands , helmsman on the maiden voyage of the RRS John Biscoe , which was used in 1963 to survey this island by the hydrographic unit of the Royal Navy .

Web links

• Biggs Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Biggs Island on geographic.org (English)