Couling Island
| Couling Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | William Scoresby Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Couling Island is an island in the William Scoresby Archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located 1.5 km north of Islay Island .
The island was discovered and named in February 1936 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations on board the research vessel RRS William Scoresby . The namesake is not known.
Web links
- Couling Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Couling Island on geographic.org (English)