Coffer Island
| Coffer Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Robertson Islands , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 45 ′ S , 45 ° 8 ′ W | |
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Coffer Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . In the group of Robertson Islands , it lies in the entrance of a bay on the east side of Matthews Island .
In the maps of the Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle , which were made on the basis of surveys between 1912 and 1915, the island is recorded as Koffer Island , Kolter Island and Kotter Island . The Anglicized form that is used today was established by participants in the British Discovery Investigations , which mapped the Robertson Islands in 1933. Evidently the name is derived from the Kuff ( Norwegian Koff ), a type of ship used in the 18th and 19th centuries for coastal navigation.
Web links
- Coffer Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coffer Island on geographic.org (English)