Terminal Island (Antarctica)
| Terminal Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 46 ′ S , 70 ° 28 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Terminal Island (from English terminal , terminating, terminally ; in Chile Isla Teniente Rodríguez ) is a small, low and snow-covered island off the north coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They are separated from the latter 800 m.
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot sighted it, but did not recognize it as an island. Participants of the 4th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1949–1950) made rough measurements of the island and named it after Renato Rodríguez Palominos, navigator on board the Lientur , one of the three ships on the research trip . The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them between 1959 and 1960 using Trimetrogon recordings from the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after its geographical location in relation to Alexander I Island.
Web links
- Terminal Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Terminal Island on geographic.org (English)