Smooth Island
| Smooth Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ S , 64 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Smooth Iceland (of English smooth , smooth, flat, uniform ' ) is an island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands , it is the northeasternmost of the Forge Islands .
The island's hallmark is its smooth and ice-free surface, which prompted the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee to give it a descriptive name in 1961.
Web links
- Smooth Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smooth Island on geographic.org (English)