Casey Islands
| Casey Islands | ||
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| Waters | Wylie Bay | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 ′ S , 64 ° 15 ′ W | |
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The Casey Islands are a group of small islands in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located south of Cape Monaco in the western part of Wylie Bay off the coast of Anvers Island .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot roughly mapped some islands in the approximate position of the archipelago described here . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names she called on 11 June 1980 after Casey A. Jones Jr., cooking overwintering team at Palmer Station in 1979, the January 9, 1980 an accident on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station around Life had come.
Web links
- Casey Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Casey Islands on geographic.org (English)