Matthews Island
| Matthews Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Robertson Islands ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 45 ′ S , 45 ° 9 ′ W | |
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The Matthews Island is an island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is the northernmost and largest in the group of Robertson Islands and lies immediately southeast of Coronation Island , from which it is separated by the narrow strait The Divide .
Until it was measured by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in January 1957, it was considered part of Coronation Island. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931–1997), who was a geologist for the survey on Signy Island in 1956.
Web links
- Matthews Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matthews Island on geographic.org (English)