Heap Island
| Heap Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 50 ′ S , 65 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Heap Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it lies between Jurva Point and Bates Island off the southeastern coast of Renaud Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1985 after the British polar explorer John Arnfield Heap (1932-2006), who worked as an expert on sea ice for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1955 and 1962 , and from 1956 to 1957 at the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) had participated and from 1992 to 1997 headed the Scott Polar Research Institute .
Web links
- Heap Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heap Island on geographic.org (English)