Heywood Island (South Shetland Islands)
| Heywood Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 19 ′ S , 59 ° 41 ′ W | |
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Heywood Island is a rocky and crescent-shaped island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 2.5 km west-northwest of the northern tip of Robert Island .
The British sealer captain George Powell named a group of islands off the northwest coast of Robert Island that he had mapped in 1822 as Heywood's Isles . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations gave the island described here after measurements in 1935 the name Hummock Island ( English for ice hill island ). Aerial photographs from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 1956 to 1957 show that the archipelago Powell rumored does not exist. For reasons of continuity, the designation made in the Discovery Investigations was discarded and Powell's designation was transferred to the island described here. It is named after Captain Peter Heywood (1772–1831) of the Royal Navy , known for his role in the mutiny on the Bounty .
Web links
- Heywood Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heywood Island on geographic.org (English)