Trowbridge Island
| Trowbridge Island | ||
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| Waters | Destruction Bay | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 38 ′ W | |
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Trowbridge Island is an island in the South Shetland archipelago . It is located 3 km northwest of Cape Melville in the Destruction Bay of King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the sealer Lady Trowbridge under Captain Richard Sherratt (1774 - unknown) from Liverpool , who sank off Cape Melville on December 25, 1820.
Web links
- Trowbridge Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trowbridge Island on geographic.org (English)