Flank Island
| Flank Island | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Myriad Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 7 ′ S , 64 ° 21 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Flank Island (from English flank , flank, wing, outer track ' ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the southernmost of the Myriad Islands and is 3 km east-northeast of the Snag Rocks .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from the years 1956 to 1957 as well as those that were created in 1958 with the help of the Westland Whirwind helicopter on board the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Protector . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 for their geographic location.
Web links
- Flank Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flank Island on geographic.org (English)