Holmes Island (Antarctica)
| Holmes Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 41 '43 " S , 65 ° 14' 36" W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
Holmes Island is a 2.5 km long island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the Grandidier Canal south of the Vieugué Island .
The island was mapped during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Brian Holmes (* 1932), geodesist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Prospect Point in 1957, who also belonged to the Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit in the Biscoe Islands from 1957 to 1958 .
Web links
- Holmes Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holmes Island on geographic.org (English)