Pear Island
| Pear Island | ||
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| Waters | Hackapike Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 31 ′ S , 62 ° 53 ′ W | |
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Pear Island ( English for pear island ) is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It belongs to a group of three islands in the east of Hackapike Bay off the northeast coast of Anvers Island . The other two are False Island and Head Island .
The island first appeared on a 1929 British hydrographic map. It probably got its descriptive name, first found on maps from 1952, as an allusion to its shape.
Web links
- Pear Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pear Island on geographic.org (English)