Puffball Islands
| Puffball Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 2 ′ S , 68 ° 36 ′ W | |
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The Puffball Islands (English for Bovistinseln ) are a group of scattered, small, low and mostly icy islands and cliff rocks before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend over a length of 16 km in a northeast-southwest direction. Its center is 37 km north-northeast of Cape Jeremy .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out the first measurements and naming during a visit in 1948. Their name is based on that of Mushroom Island 22 km northeast of this group.
Web links
- Puffball Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Puffball Islands on geographic.org (English)