Bills Island (Antarctica)
| Bill's Island | ||
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| Waters | Port Lockroy | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 49 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | |
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Bills Island is an island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Port Lockroy , it is located immediately northeast of Goudier Island .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and mapped them. The island's name appears for the first time on a map that goes back to surveys by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations . The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Bills Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bills Island on geographic.org (English)