Sterna Island
| Sterna Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 23 ′ S , 64 ° 13 ′ W | |
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Sterna Island is a small island off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.1 km north of Darboux Island .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the antipodean tern ( Sterna vittata ) which breeds here in large numbers .
Web links
- Sterna Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sterna Island on geographic.org (English)