Proud Island
| Proud Island | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Willis Islands , South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 38 ° 8 ′ W | |
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Proud Iceland is a small, high-rise at the northern end and tussock grass -covered island off the western end of South Georgia . It is at the eastern end of the Willis Islands .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations roughly mapped them between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them descriptively in 1963. It is named after the term “standing proud” from British naval jargon, which means something like “to stand tall”.
Web links
- Proud Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Proud Island on geographic.org (English)