King Island (Antarctica)
| King Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Beascochea Bay | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ S , 64 ° 2 ′ W | |
|
||
King Island is a small island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They near the south-central shore of Beascochea Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the American biochemist Charles Glen King (1896–1988), who, together with William A. Waugh, was the first to isolate vitamin C in 1932 .
Web links
- King Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- King Island on geographic.org (English)