Mica Islands
| Mica Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 20 ′ S , 68 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 4th | |
| Main island | Oliver Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Mica Islands (English for mica Islands ) are a group of four mainly ice islands at the southern end of the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 11 km west of Mount Guernsey and 10 km northeast of Cape Jeremy .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill sighted and photographed them for the first time from the air. These aerial photographs were later used to map them. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took on-site surveys in 1948 and named the islands after the mica in the middle of the shale rock on these islands.
Web links
- Mica Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mica Islands on geographic.org (English)