Jagged Island (Biscoe Islands)
| Jagged Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 59 ′ 1 ″ S , 65 ° 40 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
Jagged Iceland (of English jagged , rugged, jagged, jagged ' , in Argentina Isla Vélez Sarsfield called) is a 3 km long island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km east of Dodman Island and 13 km west of Ferin Head in the Grandidier Channel .
It is possible that the island was first sighted in January 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . In contrast, the island was first mapped and named descriptively by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Jagged Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jagged Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Vélez Sarsfield, isla in the Australian Antarctic Data Center