Refuge Islands
| Refuge Islands | ||
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| Waters | Rymill Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 21 ′ S , 67 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Refuge Islands (from English refuge , refuge, asylum, shelter ' ) are a small group of islands off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the northwestern edge of Rymill Bay , they are 1.5 km from the ice cliffs on the southwest side of Red Rock Ridge .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, discovered and named them. It is named after the fact that the islands served as a refuge equipped with a supply store for sled teams operating south of the expedition base on the Debenham Islands .
Web links
- Refuge Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Refuge Islands on geographic.org (English)