Hoodwink Island
| Hoodwink Island | ||
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| Waters | Lallemand Fjord | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 1 ′ S , 66 ° 52 ′ W | |
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Hoodwink Island (English for Island of Deception ) is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km east of the Arrowsmith Peninsula in Lallemand Fjord .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs from the years 1955 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959. The fact that they were surveyed and the investigation of their geological composition made errors .
Web links
- Hoodwink Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hoodwink Island on geographic.org (English)