Gnomon Island
| Gnomon Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 6 ′ S , 54 ° 52 ′ W | |
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Gnomon Island (also The Gnomon ) is a small, rocky and towering island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately north of Point Wild off the north coast of Elephant Island .
Participants in the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton named them. It is named after its resemblance to the upright shadow pointer ( gnomon ) of a sundial .
Web links
- Gnomon Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gnomon Island on geographic.org (English)