Guile Island
Guile Island | ||
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Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
Geographical location | 65 ° 45 ′ S , 65 ° 11 ′ W | |
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Guile Iceland (of English guile , malice, deceit, malice ' ) is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 1.5 km southwest of Duchaylard Island .
The island was mapped during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1959 because several supposedly safe landing sites on the island are bordered by numerous reef rocks that are difficult to see.
Web links
- Guile Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guile Island on geographic.org (English)