Edwards Island (Antarctica)
| Edwards Island | ||
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| Waters | Leroux Bay | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 35 ′ S , 64 ° 19 ′ W | |
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Edwards Island (also known as Wynne-Edwards Island ) is an island off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest and innermost island in a group of islands in the entrance to Leroux Bay .
Aerial photographs and measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1955 to 1957 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1959 after Lieutenant Cecil John Copner Wynne-Edwards (* 1930) of the Royal Navy , head of the hydrographic survey work carried out in the area during the Antarctic summer months between 1956 and 1957 and between 1957 and 1958.
Web links
- Edwards Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Edwards Island on geographic.org (English)