Kevin Islands
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 17 ′ S , 57 ° 44 ′ W | |
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The Kevin Islands are a group of small islands and reef rocks off the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are halfway between Halpern Point and Coupvent Point .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Kevin M. Scott, a member of the University of Wisconsin's geological team who carried out studies in Gerlache Strait between 1961 and 1962 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Kevin Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kevin Islands on geographic.org (English)