Breakwater Island
| Breakwater Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 48 ′ S , 63 ° 14 ′ W | |
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Breakwater Iceland (of English breakwater , breakwaters' ) is a small rocky island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 500 m off the east coast of Wiencke Island across from Nipple Peak . In the southwest of the island there is an arch of cliff rocks .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey gave the island its descriptive name in 1944 based on the breaking waves observed here .
Web links
- Breakwater Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breakwater Island on geographic.org (English)