Compass Island
| Compass Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Compass Island is a small, rocky and up to 15 m high island in Marguerite Bay on the Fallières coast of West Antarctic Graham Land . It is located 11 km northwest of the Terra Firma Islands .
She was sighted and photographed from the air on February 1, 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Geodesists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey paid her first visit in 1948, which was followed by a survey and naming of the island in 1949. It was named after deviations in the declination of compasses carried along , which were caused by iron wires in the hoods of the jackets worn by the geodesists.
Web links
- Compass Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Compass Island on geographic.org (English)