Broken Island
| Broken Island | ||
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| Waters | Square Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 48 ′ 51 ″ S , 66 ° 57 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| length | 4 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Broken Island (from English broken 'broken' , in Argentina Isla Quebrada ) is a 4 km long island in the northern section of Square Bay on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km north of Center Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1936) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered them. Rymill initially assumed that it was a peninsula until he identified its actual nature on August 6, 1936 and made the name.
Web links
- Broken Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Broken Island on geographic.org (English)