Moss Islands
| Moss Islands | ||
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| Waters | Hughes Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 10 ′ S , 61 ° 2 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Isla Ximena | |
The Moss Islands are a group of small islands and cliffs off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Hughes Bay they are east of Midas Island and north of Apéndice Island .
Participants of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld mapped them and gave them their descriptive German-language name after the predominant vegetation of moss and lichen .
Web links
- Moss Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moss Islands on geographic.org (English)