Guido Island
| Guido Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 55 ′ S , 63 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Guido Island ( Spanish Isla Guido , in the United Kingdom Pardoner Island ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Wauwermans Islands , it is 1.5 km northeast of Prioress Island .
The island is for the first time, but still unnamed, recorded on an Argentine map from 1950. Argentine cartographers named it in 1957 after the Argentine poet Carlos Guido Spano (1829–1918). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959, however, after a figure from the Canterbury Tales by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer , written around 1387 .
Web links
- Guido Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guido Island on geographic.org (English)