Lizard Island
| Lizard Island | ||
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| Waters | Bigo Bay | |
| Archipelago | Correo Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 41 ′ 15 ″ S , 64 ° 27 ′ 22 ″ W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
Lizard Island (from English lizard 'lizard, lizard' ) is a 3 km long and 0.8 km wide island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the northern part of Bigo Bay .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered them. Rymill named them descriptively after their shape, which reminded him of a lizard .
Web links
- Lizard Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lizard Island on geographic.org (English)