Sunday Island (Antarctica)
| Sunday Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Bragg Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 28 ′ S , 66 ° 25 ′ W | |
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Sunday Island (from English sunday 'Sunday' ) is an island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Bragg Islands , it lies immediately north of Rambler Island .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it between 1930 and 1931. Commander William Melvin Carey (1887 - unknown), captain of the RRS Discovery II , made the naming, probably on a Sunday .
Web links
- Sunday Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sunday Island on geographic.org