Upper Island
| Upper Island | ||
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| Waters | Mutton Cove | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 0 ′ S , 65 ° 39 ′ W | |
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Upper Island (literally translated from English Upper Island ) is a narrow island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between the islands of Cliff Island and Harp Island and 13 km west of Prospect Point on the north side of Mutton Cove .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them and made the naming.
Web links
- Upper Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Upper Island on geographic.org (English)