Cornet Island
| Cornet Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 34 ′ S , 64 ° 58 ′ W | |
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Cornet Island (from English cornet ' cornet ' ) is an island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 2.5 km northeast of Milnes Island along the west side of the Grandidier Channel .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out an initial survey of the island. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it the descriptive name in 1959, based on its form appearing from the air.
Web links
- Cornet Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cornet Island on geographic.org (English)