Tadpole Island
| Tadpole Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 56 ′ 10 ″ S , 65 ° 18 ′ 29 ″ W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
Tadpole Iceland (of English tadpole , tadpole ' ) is an island in the group of Biscoe Islands off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of Ferin Head .
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 gave it the descriptive name based on its shape in 1959.
Web links
- Tadpole Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tadpole Island on geographic.org (English)