Gnome Island
| Gnome Island | ||
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| Waters | Bourgeois Fjords | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 66 ° 51 ′ W | |
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Gnome Iceland (loosely translated from English Gnominsel ) is a rocky island in the archipelago of Adelaide- and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the eastern end of Blaiklock Island and Thomson Head near the head of the Bourgeois Fjord .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took measurements in 1947 and named them because their shape is reminiscent of a gnome emerging from the sea .
Web links
- Gnome Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gnome Island on geographic.org (English)