Bruce Islands

Bruce Islands
	Map of the southern Orkney Islands with the Bruce Islands (center right)
Waters	Washington Strait
archipelago	South Orkney Islands
Geographical location	60 ° 41 ′ S , 44 ° 56 ′ W Coordinates: 60 ° 41 ′ S , 44 ° 56 ′ W

The Bruce Islands are a group of islands in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They are located 2.5 km northwest of Eillium Island and 5 km northwest of Route Point , the northwest tip of Laurie Island .

They were discovered and roughly mapped by the captains George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer in December 1821. The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle took part in the British Discovery Investigations between 1912 and 1913 and in 1933 . The latter named the islands after the Scottish polar explorer William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921), leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904).

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