Blaiklock Island
| Blaiklock Island | ||
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| Waters | Bigourdan Fjord , Jones Canal , Bourgeois Fjord and The Narrows | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 67 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| length | 17.9 km | |
| width | 11.4 km | |
| Highest elevation |
Mount Kershaw 1180 m |
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The Blaiklock Island is a towering, rugged and irregularly shaped island of about 14.5 km in length, between the Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Lands located. The highest point is Mount Kershaw in the northeast of the island at 1180 meters . The 800-meter-wide strait The Narrows lies between Blaiklock Island and the larger Pourquoi-Pas Island to the southwest , and the 1,100-meter-wide Jones Canal separates it from the Loubet coast of western Graham Land .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out the first geodetic survey of the island in 1936, but it was incorrectly mapped as a headland . It was not until 1949 that its namesake, the British geodesist Kenneth Victor Blaiklock (* 1927) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , identified its actual nature.
The Baiklock refuge on the north coast of the island is an outpost of the former Marguerite Bay (Base Y) station on Horseshoe Island , 35 km further south , and is accordingly part of the HSM-63 Historic Site .
Web links
- Blaiklock Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blaiklock Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the region
