False Island

This article describes the island off the Antarctic Peninsula, for the rocky promontory on the coast of South Africa, also known by this name, see Kwaaihoek .

False Island
Waters	Hackapike Bay
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Geographical location	64 ° 31 ′  S , 62 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 64 ° 31 ′  S , 62 ° 53 ′  W

False Iceland ( English for Wrong Island ) is an island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest in a group of three islands to the east of Hackapike Bay off the northeast coast of Anvers Island . The other two are Pear Island and Head Island .

During the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , two islands were mapped at the geographical position of the island described here. The designation in 1927 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations takes this error into account.

Web links

• False Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• False Island on geographic.org (English)