Friar Island
| Friar Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 55 ′ S , 63 ° 55 ′ W | |
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Friar Island is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Wauwermans Islands it lies immediately northeast of Manciple Island .
The island is first recorded on an Argentine map from 1952, still unnamed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after a figure from the Canterbury Tales by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer , written around 1387 .
Web links
- Friar Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Friar Island on geographic.org (English)