Mushroom Island
| Mushroom Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 54 ′ S , 67 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Mushroom Island (from English mushroom 'mushroom' ) is an icy island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 16 km west-southwest of Cape Berteaux in Marguerite Bay .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, mapped and named them. It is named after its resemblance to a mushroom hat .
Web links
- Mushroom Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mushroom Island on geographic.org (English)