Koechlin Island
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| Waters | Buchanan Passage | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 42 ′ S , 67 ° 38 ′ W | |
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Koechlin Island is an island in the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located off the northeast coast of Adelaide Island at a distance of 7 km south of the Sillard Islands in the entrance to the Buchanan Passage .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swiss glaciologist René Koechlin (1866–1951).
Web links
- Koechlin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koechlin Island on geographic.org (English)