Trepassey Island
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| Waters | Neny Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 12 ′ S , 66 ° 58 ′ W | |
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Trepassey Island is a small and rocky island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1 km southeast of Stonington Island in Neny Bay .
Several islands in this area were roughly mapped in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) and the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed this island in 1947 and named it. It is named after the ship MV Trepassey , which dar FIDS used to set up its base on Stonington Island in 1946.
Web links
- Trepassey Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trepassey Island on geographic.org (English)