Cormorant Island (Antarctica)
| Cormorant Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 48 ′ S , 63 ° 58 ′ W | |
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Cormorant Iceland (of English cormorant , cormorant ' ) is an island off the southern coast of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 4 km east-southeast of Bonaparte Point .
The island was first recorded on an Argentine map from 1954, unbanned. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1958 after the cormorants that can be found here in large numbers .
Web links
- Cormorant Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cormorant Island on geographic.org (English)