Napier Island
| Napier Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 13 ′ S , 67 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Napier Island is a 1.3 km long island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 19 km west-southwest of Mount Balfour in the southeast part of Marguerite Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey recorded it after measurements carried out in 1958 as an ice dome in the middle of the now defunct Wordie Ice Shelf . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1999 after the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), who in 1614 developed the logarithm as a calculation tool.
Web links
- Napier Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Napier Island on geographic.org (English)