Leopard Island
| Leopard Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ 21 ″ S , 64 ° 17 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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| length | 330 m | |
Leopard Island is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 330 m west of the southwestern extension of Skua Island in the group of the Argentine Islands in the northeastern extension of the Grandidier Canal .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped the island. It is probably named after the leopard seal ( Hydrurga leptonyx ), a seal that is widespread in southern polar waters.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 922 (English)
Web links
- Leopard Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leopard Island on geographic.org (English)