School Iceland

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School Iceland
Waters Grandidier Canal
Archipelago Biscoe Islands ( West Antarctica )
Geographical location 65 ° 45 '56 "  S , 65 ° 32' 34"  W Coordinates: 65 ° 45 '56 "  S , 65 ° 32' 34"  W
School Iceland (Antarctic Peninsula)
School Iceland
length 1 km
Residents uninhabited

Schule Island ( English , Spanish Isla Schule ) is a small island in the Biscoe Islands group west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 km east of Laktionov Island off the east coast of Renaud Island .

Aerial photographs of the island were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . First recorded, but still unnamed, it is on an Argentine government map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the American oceanographer John J. Schule Jr., who in 1950 established the United States' sea ​​ice service Hydrographic Office had organized.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School Island ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved January 23, 2015.