Jagged Island (South Shetland Islands)
| Jagged Island | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 54 ′ S , 58 ° 26 ′ W | |
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Jagged Iceland (of English jagged , rugged, jagged, jagged ' ; in Argentina Islas Gregores ) is a rocky island off the north coast of King George Iceland in Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 4 km north-northwest of Round Point .
The island was probably already known to the first seal hunters in the area. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1935 and gave it its descriptive name. The name giver of the Argentine name from 1978 is José C. Gregores (* 1882), Alférez de Fragata and later frigate captain of the Argentine Navy.
Web links
- Jagged Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jagged Island on geographic.org (English)