Guard Islands
| Guard Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 52 ′ S , 66 ° 21 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Guard Islands are a small group of islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands and are 8 km west-northwest of Lively Point off the southwest coast of Renaud Island .
The islands are first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after the Danish oceanographer Thomas Vilhelm Garde (1859-1926), who had initiated an international program in 1899 to record the extent of sea ice in the Antarctic .
Web links
- Garde Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Garde Islands on geographic.org (English)