Preston Island
| Preston Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Henkes Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 58 ′ W | |
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Preston Iceland is the largest island in the group of the Henkes Islands off southern end of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island .
The Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit carried out geodetic surveys of the island between 1962 and 1963 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them on February 12, 1964 after Frank Preston (* 1938), geodesist of the British Antarctic Survey and head of the group that was the first to winter on Adelaide Island in 1961.
Web links
- Preston Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Preston Island on geographic.org (English)