Cornwall Island (South Shetland Islands)
| Cornwall Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 20 '33 " S , 59 ° 42' 32" W | |
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| length | 800 m | |
Cornwall Island is an 800 m long island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is halfway between Heywood Island and the western edge of Robert Island .
The British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793–1827) describes the island during his trip to Antarctica from 1820 to 1822, but does not give it a name. Participants in the British Discovery Investigations sighted it from a distance during survey work between 1934 and 1935, mistakenly mistaken it for a headland and named it Cornwall Point . However, aerial photographs show that it is actually an island.
Web links
- Cornwall Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cornwall Island on geographic.org (English)