Halfway Island (Antarctica)
| Halfway Island | ||
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| Waters | Wylie Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 45 ′ S , 64 ° 11 ′ W | |
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Halfway Island (from English freely translated Island on Halfway ) is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 4 km northwest of Litchfield Island in the entrance to Wylie Bay in the southwest of Anvers Island .
The Royal Navy Hydrographic Unit carried out surveys between 1956 and 1957. The island owes its name to the fact that it is halfway between Arthur Harbor and Cape Monaco .
Web links
- Halfway Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Halfway Island on geographic.org (English)