Prioress Island
| Prioress Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 56 ′ S , 63 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Prioress Iceland is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Wauwermans Islands , it is 0.8 km east of Host Island .
The island is first shown on an Argentine map from 1954, but it has not yet been named. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after a figure from the Canterbury Tales by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer , written around 1387 .
Web links
- Prioress Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prioress Island on geographic.org (English)