Powder Island
| Powder Island | ||
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| Waters | George VI Sound | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 32 ′ S , 68 ° 46 ′ W | |
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Powder Island (from English powder 'powder, powder, flour' , Spanish Islote Pólvora ) is an island 3 km off the Rymill coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . In George VI Sound it is 13 km south-southeast of Cape Jeremy .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1948 and named it after the friable rock that was found here.
Web links
- Powder Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Powder Island on geographic.org (English)