Corner Island
| Corner Island | ||
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| Waters | Bloor Passage and Meek Canal | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 64 ° 14 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Corner Island (from English corner , corner ' ) is a small island in the form of an eponymous right angle west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 175 m northeast of Galíndez Island in the group of Argentine islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago .
The island was surveyed and named in 1935 by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 359 (English)
Web links
- Corner Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corner Island on geographic.org (English)