Cat Island (Antarctica)
| Cat Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ S , 65 ° 13 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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| length | 800 m | |
Cat Island (English, in Argentina Isla Gato , both sides literally translated Cat Island ) is an 800 m long island in the group of Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Land . It is located at the southern end of the Grandidier Canal , halfway between Duchaylard and Larrouy Islands .
The discovery, mapping and descriptive naming based on their form goes back to participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill in 1935.
See also
Web links
- Cat Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cat Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 294 (English): “ Discovered, charted, and named descriptively (for its shape) in 1935, by BGLE 1934-37 ”.