Knight Island (Wilhelm Archipelago)
| Knight Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 54 ′ 56 ″ S , 64 ° 0 ′ 37 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
Knight Island is a 2.5 km long island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Wauwermans Islands , it is 1.5 km west of Reeve Island .
The island is still unnamed and first recorded on an Argentine map from 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after a figure from the Canterbury Tales by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer , written around 1387 .
Web links
- Knight Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knight Island on geographic.org (English)