The Buttons
| The Buttons | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 64 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The buttons ( English for the buttons are) two small islands off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 320 m northwest of Galíndez Island in the group of Argentine islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago .
The islands were mapped and named descriptively after their appearance in 1935 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- The buttons in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Buttons on geographic.org (English)