Trivial Islands
| Trivial Islands | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ S , 65 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Trivial Islands are a group of small islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the Biscoe Islands archipelago and are 2.5 km east of Lacuna Island and 11 km north of Vieugué Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them using aerial photographs taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. made from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1959, because it said the islands are "small, barren and uninteresting".
Web links
- Trivial Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trivial Islands on geographic.org (English)