Hennessy Islands
| Hennessy Islands | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 53 ′ S , 65 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Hennessy Islands are a group of small islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands over a length of 3 km and are 6 km southeast of Jurva Point , the southeast end of the Renaud Island .
The largest of the islands are shown for the first time on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after Jack Hennessy (1885-1954), from 1940 until his death deputy head of the British Met Office , who had collected all available reports on sea ice observations from 1902 to 1953 .
Web links
- Hennessy Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hennessy Islands on geographic.org (English)