Trivelpiece Island
| Trivelpiece Island | ||
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| Waters | Wylie Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
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Trivelpiece Island is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located northeast of Halfway Island in Wylie Bay on Anvers Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1998 after the biologist Wayne Z. Trivelpiece (* 1948) and his wife Susan Green Trivelpiece, who had jointly studied the bird life of the Antarctic Peninsula for over twenty years .
Web links
- Trivelpiece Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trivelpiece Island on geographic.org (English)