Breaker Island
| Breaker Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ S , 64 ° 6 ′ W | |
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Breaker Iceland (of English breaker , tidal wave, surf wave ' ) is a small rocky island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located immediately southwest of Norsel Point off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey of the island in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957, first as Breaker Islet , from 1960 in its current form, after the waves breaking on its coast.
Web links
- Breaker Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breaker Island on geographic.org (English)