Sanctuary Islands
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 37 ′ S , 64 ° 35 ′ W | |
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The Sanctuary Islands (English for refuge islands ) are a group of small islands off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 800 m southwest of the Link Stack just off the west coast of Chavez Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by British polar explorer John Rymill mapped it for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 because the islands offered, among other things, a sheltered storage area for the dog sled teams of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who had explored the area from Prospect Point in 1957 .
Web links
- Sanctuary Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sanctuary Islands on geographic.org (English)