Squire Island
| Squire Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 55 ′ S , 63 ° 54 ′ W | |
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Squire Island is a small island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately northeast of Friar Island in the group of the Wauwermans Islands .
The island is recorded for the first time on an Argentine map from 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after a character from the Canterbury Tales of the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer .
Web links
- Squire Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Squire Island on geographic.org (English)