Esplin Islands
| Esplin Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 45 ′ S , 69 ° 0 ′ W | |
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The Esplin Islands are a small two islands and some cliffs existing group of islands at the southern end of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . They are northeast of Box Reef .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them after Lieutenant Christopher John Esplin-Jones (* 1940), a member of the Royal Navy hydrographic unit that mapped these islands between 1962 and 1963.
Web links
- Esplin Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Esplin Islands on geographic.org (English)