Cornish Islands
| Cornish Islands | ||
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| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 67 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Cornish Islands are two snow-covered islands in Hanusse Bay off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . A reef rock lies between them and they are 6 km south of Liard Island .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the British geographer Vaughan Cornish (1862-1948), who pioneered the various forms of snowdrifts between 1901 and 1914.
Web links
- Cornish Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cornish Islands on geographic.org (English)