Isla Ximena
| Isla Ximena | ||
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| Waters | Hughes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Moss Islands | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 10 ′ S , 61 ° 2 ′ W | |
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The Isla Ximena ( Spanish is) a small island off the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest of the Moss Islands in Hughes Bay and is 3 km east of Midas Island between this island and Cierva Point . The island is not icy in the Antarctic summer and lush overgrown with mainly mosses and lichens , which give it a reddish to coffee-brown color.
The name of the island was first recorded on a Chilean map from 1957. The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Ximena, Isla in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)