Rhyolite Islands
| Rhyolite Islands | ||
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| Waters | George VI Sound | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 40 ′ S , 68 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Moore Island | |
The Rhyolite Islands are a group of islands and skerries that extend over a length of about 6.5 km in an east-west direction off the Rymill coast in the west of the Antarctic Palmerland opposite the north side of the mouth of the Eureka Glacier in the George VI -Sund distribute.
They were geodetically surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named them after the rhyolite rock from which the islands mainly consist.
Web links
- Rhyolite Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rhyolite Islands on geographic.org (English)