Gremlin Island
| Gremlin Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 16 ′ S , 67 ° 11 ′ W | |
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Gremlin Island ( Islote Duende in Argentina , each translatable as Kobold Island ) is a small and rocky island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately northwest of the Red Rock Ridge foothills .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a first survey in 1936. The island was used by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) between 1948 and 1949 as a location for a food depot. The island owes its name to the fact that a FIDS sled team mysteriously lost a box of supplies here.
Web links
- Gremlin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gremlin Island on geographic.org (English)