Glinka Islands
| Glinka Islands | ||
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| Waters | Lazarev Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 32 ′ S , 72 ° 14 ′ W | |
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The Glinka Islands are a small group of rocky islands off the west coast of Alexander I Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located in Lasarev Bay immediately to the east of Rothschild Island .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) made the first aerial photographs. Aerial photographs of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857).
Web links
- Glinka Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glinka Islands on geographic.org (English)