Vortex Island
| Red Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 44 ′ S , 57 ° 38 ′ W | |
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Vortex Iceland (of English vortex , swirl, swirl ' ) is a 800 m long and up to 245 m high island in the northeastern part of the Prince Gustav Channel front of south side of Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is about 3 km west-southwest of Corry Island .
The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped them in August 1945 and made the designation. It is named after the fact that the FIDS surveying work was hindered by a hurricane .
Web links
- Vortex Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vortex Island on geographic.org (English)