Mackerel Island
| Mackerel Island | ||
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| Waters | Holtedahl Bay | |
| Archipelago | Fish Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 2 ′ S , 65 ° 25 ′ W | |
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Mackerel Island (from English mackerel ' mackerel ' ) is an island of the Fish Islands on the north side of Holtedahl Bay off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located west of Flounder Island .
It was mapped during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 based on the name of the archipelago to which it belongs.
Web links
- Mackerel Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackerel Island on geographic.org (English)