Turtle Island (Antarctica)
| Turtle Island | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Saffery Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 4 ′ S , 65 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Turtle Iceland (literally translated from English Turtle Island ) is an island off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the most north-westerly island in the Saffery Islands group
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered it and gave it the descriptive name based on its shape.
Web links
- Turtle Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turtle Island on geographic.org (English)