Plaice Island
| Plaice Island | ||
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| Waters | Holtedahl Bay | |
| Archipelago | Fish Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 1 ′ S , 65 ° 26 ′ W | |
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Plaice Iceland (of English plaice , flounder ' ) is an island off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It belongs to the Fish Islands on the north side of the entrance to Holtedahl Bay and is west of Mackerel Island .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 based on the name of the archipelago to which it belongs.
Web links
- Plaice Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Plaice Island on geographic.org (English)