Solitario Island
| Solitario Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 51 ′ S , 68 ° 26 ′ W | |
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The Solitario Island ( Spanish Islote Solitario 'Lonely Island' , in the United Kingdom Solus Island ) is a small island in Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km south of the Guébriant Islands and east of the Dion Islands off the southern end of Adelaide Island .
Your Spanish name appears for the first time on an Argentine map from 1957. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated it into English in 1965. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1960 to name it from the Latin solus for lonely .
Web links
- Solitario Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Solitario Island on geographic.org (English)