Keyhole Island
| Keyhole Island | ||
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| Waters | Mikkelsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 47 ′ S , 67 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Keyhole Island (from English keyhole 'keyhole' ) is a small island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8 km southeast of the Terra Firma Islands in the southwest part of Mikkelsen Bay .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey first surveyed the island in 1948. They named the island after a vault of ice that they had seen on the island and that reminded them of a keyhole.
Web links
- Keyhole Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keyhole Island on geographic.org (English)