Diomedea Island

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Diomedea Island
View from the Fildes Peninsula over the Chilean Frei Station to Ardley Cove with Diomedea Island (right of center)
View from the Fildes Peninsula over the Chilean Frei Station to Ardley Cove with Diomedea Island (right of center)
Waters Ardley Cove , Maxwell Bay , Bransfield Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 12 ′  S , 58 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 12 ′  S , 58 ° 57 ′  W
Diomedea Island (South Shetland Islands)
Diomedea Island

Diomedea Island (in Argentina Isla Torta , roughly translated from Spanish, Törtcheninsel ) is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in the Ardley Cove of the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island .

Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition gave the island the name Остров Албатрос (transcribed Ostrow Albatros , English Albatross Island , both sides translated Albatross Island ). Since there is already an island with this name in the English-language version with Albatross Island in the Bay of Isles of South Georgia , the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1979 to rename it to avoid confusion. The new name giver is the albatross genus Diomedea , to which, for example, the wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans ) belongs. The name common in Argentina is descriptively based on the shape of the island.

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