Lacuna Island
| Lacuna Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ S , 65 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Lacuna Island ( English for Gap Island ) is a small island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 13 km east of Tula Point , the northern end of Renaud Island .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it so in 1959 because it appears to fill a gap in the aerial photographs.
Web links
- Lacuna Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lacuna Island on geographic.org (English)