Reid Island

Reid Island
Map of the South Orkney Islands with Reid Island (right of center)
Waters	Orwell Bight
Archipelago	South Orkney Islands
Geographical location	60 ° 40 ′  S , 45 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 40 ′  S , 45 ° 29 ′  W

Reid Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located in front of the east side of the entrance to Iceberg Bay on the south coast of Coronation Island .

In the maps of the Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle , which were made on the basis of surveys between 1912 and 1915, it is recorded as a group of islands under the name Reidholmen . It is named after Sørlle's eldest daughter Reidunn (1909–1988). Measurements of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1948 and 1949, however, showed that it was only a single island and transferred Sørlle's name in anglicised form.

Web links

• Reid Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Reid Island on geographic.org (English)