Runaway Island

This article describes the island in Antarctica. For the Australian-French children's and youth television series of the same name, see Up and Away (TV series) .

Runaway Island
Waters	Marguerite Bay
Geographical location	68 ° 12 ′  S , 67 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 68 ° 12 ′  S , 67 ° 6 ′  W

Runaway Island (from English runaway , 'torn out, escaped' , in Chile Isla Orrego Vicuña ) is a small island in Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 1.1 km west of the western foothills of Neny Island and 300 m northwest of Surf Rock .

Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a rough map in 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) specified this in 1947. The island is named after a group of sled dogs that had run away during the surveying work of the FIDS scientists, which had forced them to return to their base station on foot. The namesake of the Chilean name is the Chilean writer and historian Eugenio Orrego Vicuña (1900-1959), who took part in the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946-1947).

Web links

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