Roe Island
| Roe Island | ||
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| Waters | Curtiss Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 1 ′ S , 60 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Roe Island is an island off the Davis Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located around 3 km west of Cape Andreas in the entrance to Curtiss Bay .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe (1877-1958).
Web links
- Roe Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roe Island on geographic.org (English)