Kappa Island
| Kappa Island | ||
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Archipelago | Melchior Islands , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 19 ′ 18 " S , 62 ° 59 ′ 54" W | |
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| length | 850 m | |
The Kappa Island ( English Kappa Iceland ) is a 850 m long island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the Melchior Islands group immediately south of the Betaine Island and east of the Theta Islands .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped them in 1927 and named them after the Greek letter theta based on the names of the other islands in the group . It was measured during Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. In Argentina , the island is also known as Isla 1er Teniente López . The namesake here is the pilot José Facundo López from the Fuerza Aérea Argentina , who made the first flight to the Antarctic in 1951 under Argentine leadership.
Web links
- Kappa Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kappa Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 835 (English).