Boxing Island
| Boxing Island | ||
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| Waters | Charlotte Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 35 ′ S , 61 ° 41 ′ W | |
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Boxing Island is a small island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in Charlotte Bay and east of Harris Peak forms the western boundary to Giffard Cove .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped the island for the first time, but did not give it a name. The designation was carried out by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Name derives from the Boxing Day after the FIDS had sighted the island on December 26, 1955th
Web links
- Boxing Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boxing Island on geographic.org (English)