Chinstrap Island
| Chinstrap Island | ||
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| Waters | Somow Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Balleny Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 163 ° 20 ′ E | |
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Chinstrap Island is an island in the Balleny Islands group of East Antarctica . It is heavily glaciated, volcanic origin and is located approximately 250 km north-northeast of the at the Oates Coast of Victoria Land located Cape Kinsey .
The naming of the island has been recognized by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names since 2015 . It is named after probably the chinstrap ( English Chinstrap penguin ), whose existence was limited to the Balleny Islands in the 1980s to this island.
Web links
- Chinstrap Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinstrap penguin. Information on the New Zealand Birds Online homepage (accessed November 14, 2018).