South Island (McDonald Islands)
| South Iceland | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Heard and McDonald Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 3 ′ S , 72 ° 36 ′ E | |
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South Island (literally translated from English South Island ) is a rocky island in the Heard Archipelago and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It is the southernmost object in the McDonald Islands group .
Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions mapped it in 1948 and gave it the descriptive name.
Web links
- South Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- South Island on geographic.org (English)