Pyramid Island (South Shetland Islands)
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 25 ′ S , 60 ° 6 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 205 m | |
Pyramid Iceland (loosely translated from English pyramid Island ) is a distinctive and up to 205 m high rocky island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 3 km north-northeast of Williams Point off the north coast of Livingston Island .
It was probably already known to the first sealers operating in these waters in 1821. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out the mapping and descriptive naming in 1935.
Web links
- Pyramid Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pyramid Island on geographic.org (English)