Dog Island (Antarctica)
| Dog Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Llanquihue Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 49 ′ S , 65 ° 5 ′ W | |
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Dog Island (from English dog ' dog ' ) is an island off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the northernmost of the Llanquihue Islands .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on July 7, 1959, because Cat Island ( English cat ' cat ' ) is exactly opposite it.
Web links
- Dog Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dog Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 441: “ So named by UK-APC on July 7, 1959, because it faces Cat Island across the navigable channel ”.