Manciple Island
| Manciple Island | ||
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| Waters | Nimrod Passage | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 56 ′ S , 63 ° 56 ′ W | |
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Manciple Island is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Wauwermans Islands , it lies between Reeve Island and Host Island .
The island is first recorded on an Argentine map from 1952, still unnamed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after a figure from the Canterbury Tales by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer , written around 1387 .
Web links
- Manciple Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Manciple Island on geographic.org (English)