Diomedea Island
Diomedea Island | ||
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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 | |
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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.
Web links
- Diomedea Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Diomedea Island on geographic.org (English)