Ongley Island

Ongley Island
View from Barrientos Island to Onlgey Island and Greenwich Island beyond
Waters	Drake Street
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Geographical location	62 ° 25 '48 "  S , 59 ° 53' 21"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 25 '48 "  S , 59 ° 53' 21"  W
length	1.35 km
width	470 m
surface	44 ha

Ongley Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 4 km west of Dee Island near the north coast of Greenwich Island .

The island was mapped in 1935 by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations . It is named after Leonard Thomas Ongley (1899–1944), cartographer of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office .

Web links

• Ongley Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Ongley Island on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ongley Island in the database of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English, accessed on March 21, 2016).