Long Island (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 45 ′ 58 ″ S , 58 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
Long Island (from English long , long, wide ' ) is a 5 km long, 800 m wide and northeast-southwest facing island off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the Prince Gustav Canal opposite the mouth of the Russell East Glacier and 3 km south of the Trinity Peninsula .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey discovered, mapped, and named them in 1945.
Web links
- Long Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Long Island on geographic.org (English)