Turnabout Island
| Turnabout Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Saffery Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 5 ′ S , 65 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Turnabout Iceland (basically translated from English reversal Island ) is a snow-covered island off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Saffery Islands it is 3 km southwest of the Black Head .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, discovered and named them. It is named after the fact that a sled team on this expedition had to turn back on this island in August 1935 after they encountered open water southwest of it.
Web links
- Turnabout Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turnabout Island on geographic.org (English)