Black Island (Wilhelm Archipelago)
| Black Island | ||
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| Waters | French Passage and Black Island Channel | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ 32 ″ S , 64 ° 16 ′ 51 ″ W | |
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| length | 300 m | |
Black Island ( English for Black Island ) is an approximately 300 m long island off the Kiev Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately southwest of the island of Skua Island in the group of Argentine islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago , from which it is separated by the Black Island Channel .
The island was mapped and named descriptively in 1935 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 170 (English)
Web links
- Black Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Black Island on geographic.org (English)