Embassy Islands
| Embassy Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Dion Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 53 ′ S , 68 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Embassy of Iceland (English for message Islands ) are two small islands in the northern Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are the westernmost of the Dion Islands and are 11 km south of Adelaide Island .
The Dion Islands were discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey of the object described here in 1949. In the erroneous assumption that it was a single island, the FIDS named it Embassy Rock in reference to its geographical location on Emperor Island . In 1963, a Royal Navy hydrographic research team discovered that they were two islands. The naming has been adapted accordingly.
Web links
- Embassy of Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Embassy Islands on geographic.org (English)