Corry Island
| Corry Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 42 ′ 58 ″ S , 57 ° 31 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
Corry Island is a 3 km long and up to 510 m high island in the Prince Gustav Canal off the south side of the Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Vega Island and Eagle Island .
This island is probably the object named Cape Corry by the British polar explorer James Clark Ross during his Antarctic voyage (1839–1843) . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey uncovered the actual nature of the property in 1945 and changed its name accordingly. It is named after the British politician Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry (1803–1873), then Lord Commissioner of the British Admiralty .
Web links
- Corry Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corry Island on geographic.org (English)