Boogie Island
| Boogie Island | ||
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| Waters | Port Lockroy | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 49 ′ S , 63 ° 30 ′ W | |
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Boogie Island is a small and low island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 550 m west of Goudier Island in front of Wiencke Island .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out the first rough mapping in 1904. The island was measured and named together with Woogie Island in 1944 during the British Operation Tabarin . Both islands are named after the boogie-woogie- style swing music that was often heard on the radio at Operation Tabarin at Port Lockroy .
Web links
- Boogie Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boogie Island on geographic.org (English)