Gooden Island
Gooden Island | ||
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Waters | Litwin Bay | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 61 ° 59 ′ S , 58 ° 32 ′ W | |
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Gooden Island is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 3 km southwest of Davey Point in front of the confluence of the Usher Glacier in Litwin Bay on the John Paul II coast of King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2019, initially erroneously as a headland , after K. R. Gooden, head of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey station in Admiralty Bay in the Antarctic winter of 1951.
Web links
- Gooden Island . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)