Round Island (Antarctica)
| Round Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 54 ′ 8 ″ S , 65 ° 32 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.1 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
| surface | 50 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Round Island (English, Spanish Isla Redonda , both synonymous with "Round Island") is an uninhabited and ice-covered island in the group of Biscoe Islands off the Graham coast on the west side of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is one mile west of Hummock Island and seven miles northwest of Ferin Head . The island is 1.1 km long and 0.8 km wide.
The island was discovered, mapped and descriptively named in February 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Round Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Round Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1331 (English): “ Discovered, charted, and named descriptively in Feb. 1936, by BGLE 1934-37 , […]. ”