Line Islands (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 55 ′ S , 67 ° 13 ′ W | |
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The Line Islands are a small group of islands off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are between Horseshoe Island and Camp Point .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them descriptively in 1971, since the archipelago is equivalent to a chain of islands on a line of lined up islands.
Web links
- Line Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Line Islands on geographic.org (English)