Mickle Island
| Mickle Island | ||
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| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Archipelago | Ross Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 34 ′ S , 166 ° 13 ′ E | |
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The Mickle Iceland is a very small island , which is about 1.6 km south of Flagstaff Point near the west coast of the Antarctic Ross Island lies.
The island was discovered and mapped by participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . The island got its name as an ironic allusion to its insignificant size, since "mickle" is a slang word for "big" in English.
See also
Web links
- Mickle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mickle Island on geographic.org (English)
- Mickle Islet. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 212 (English)