Hayrick Island
| Hayrick Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Terra Firma Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 42 ′ S , 67 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Hayrick Iceland (English for Diem island is) a small, distinctive and up to 150 m high island in the Marguerite Bay before Fallières Coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . In the group of the Terra Firma Islands it lies between Lodge Rock and Twig Rock .
The first surveys of the archipelago were made by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . This island was then measured in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It is named after its appearance, which is reminiscent of a dieme when viewed from the east .
Web links
- Hayrick Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hayrick Island on geographic.org (English)