Tanner Island
| Tanner Island | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Pickersgill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 38 ′ S , 36 ° 46 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 145 m | |
Tanner Island is the westernmost and largest island in the group of Pickersgill Islands off the south coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1979 after William Geoffrey Tanner (* 1938), geologist of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked on this island from 1975 to 1976.
Web links
- Tanner Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tanner Island on geographic.org (English)