Milnes Island
| Milnes Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 36 ′ S , 65 ° 1 ′ W | |
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Milnes Island is an island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3 km north of Woolpack 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 after the able seaman Arthur R. Milnes of the Royal Navy , who was a member of the British Hydrographic Surveying Unit in the Biscoe Islands from 1956 to 1957 and from 1957 to 1958.
Web links
- Milnes Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Milnes Island on geographic.org (English)