Stoker Island
| Stoker Island | ||
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| Waters | English Strait | |
| Archipelago | Aitcho Islands ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 24 ′ S , 59 ° 51 ′ W | |
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Stoker Iceland (of English stoker , heater ' ) is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the westernmost of the Aitcho Islands in the English Strait and is located 2.1 km west-southwest of Emeline Island . The island is populated by chinstrap penguins .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1971 in recognition of the work of Donald N. Tait (* 1940), stoker on board the survey vessel Nimrod, when a hydrographic unit of the Royal Navy surveyed this and other islands in 1967 .
Web links
- Stoker Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stoker Island on geographic.org (English)