Conway Island
| Conway Island | ||
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| Waters | Crates Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 9 ′ S , 65 ° 26 ′ W | |
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Conway Island is a small island off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located west of Lens Peak in the entrance to Crates Bay , a side bay of Holtedahl Bay .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1959 after the British mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856-1937), who in 1896 was the first to cross the island of Svalbard on skis .
Web links
- Conway Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conway Island on geographic.org (English)