Symington Islands
| Symington Islands | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 27 ′ S , 64 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Symington Islands are a group of small islands and reef rocks off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the Biscoe Islands archipelago and are located 21 km west-northwest of Lahille Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after John Donald Lewis Symington (* 1920), chief aerial photographer on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957).
Web links
- Symington Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Symington Islands on geographic.org (English)