Vincent Islands
| Vincent Islands | ||
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| Waters | King Haakon Bay | |
| archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 9 ′ S , 37 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Vincent Islands are small archipelagos on the south side of South Georgia . They are at the head of King Haakon Bay .
Participants of the endurance expedition (1914-1916) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton roughly mapped them. The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the archipelago in 1958 after the sailor John Vincent (1879-1941), who accompanied Shackleton and four other expedition members on the rescue trip from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
Web links
- Vincent Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vincent Islands on geographic.org (English)