Grotto Island
| Grotto Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ 31 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 7 ″ W | |
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| length | 800 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Grotto Island (roughly translated from English Grotto Island ) is a narrow island with a serrated coastline west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 170 m north of Galíndez Island in the group of the Argentine Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill in 1935 made mapping and naming . It was named after an ice grotto on the island.
Web links
- Grotto Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grotto Island on geographic.org (English)