Hermit Island (Antarctica)
| Hermit Island | ||
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| Waters | Bismarck Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 48 ′ 2 ″ S , 64 ° 1 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
Hermit Iceland (of English hermit , recluse, a hermit ' ) is a 1.5 km long island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km southeast of Bonaparte Point off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made the designation in 1958. It is named after the fact that a geodesist from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey was stationed on this island in January 1957 to measure it.
Web links
- Hermit Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hermit Island on geographic.org (English)