Cheshire Island
| Cheshire Island | ||
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| Waters | Cole Channel | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 34 '23.2 " S , 68 ° 7' 28.9" W | |
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| length | 80 m | |
| width | 80 m | |
Cheshire Island is a 80 m long and equally wide island in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 25 m from Rothera Point on Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It was named after Alan Armstrong Cheshire (* 1955) from the British Antarctic Survey , radio operator on the Faraday and Rothera stations from 1976 to 1979.
Web links
- Cheshire Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)