Crouch Island
| Crouch Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Henkes Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 49 ′ S , 68 ° 58 ′ W | |
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After Preston Island, Crouch Island is the second largest island in the group of Henkes Islands off the southern end of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island .
The Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit carried out geodetic surveys of the island between 1962 and 1963 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 12, 1964 after Alan Crouch (* 1935), meteorological and general assistant at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who in 1961 was one of the first BAS scientists to work on Adelaide Island overwintered.
Web links
- Crouch Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crouch Island on geographic.org (English)