Humps Island
| Humps Island | ||
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| Waters | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
| Archipelago | Ross Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 59 ′ S , 57 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Humps Island (from English hump 'hump, hump' in the plural form ) is an 800 m long island in the Erebus and Terror Gulf of the Antarctic Weddell Sea . It is located 6 km east of The Naze peninsula in the north of James Ross Island between the latter and Vega Island to the north, south of the northern foothills of the Antarctic Peninsula .
They were discovered by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the island in 1945. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1948. The descriptive name given to the two mountain peaks at their western end, which are reminiscent of the humps of a trample . While in Argentina the name was completely translated into Spanish as Islote Giboso , the island is known in Chile as Islote Humps .
Web links
- Humps Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Humps Island on geographic.org (English)