Watkins Island
| Watkins Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 21 '13 " S , 67 ° 5' 10" W | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Watkins Island ( English Watkins Island , Spanish isla Watkins ) is an uninhabited, approximately 8 km long island of the Biscoe archipelago , which is off the Antarctic Peninsula . The fully glaciated island has no significant elevations and is located 5 km southwest of Lavoisier Island .
The island was first mapped during the French Antarctic Expedition from 1903 to 1905 under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . John Rymill named them on the British Grahamland Expedition (1934-37) after the Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen . Later it turned out that Charcot had already named a small group of islands about 120 km away after the Dane during his expedition from 1908 to 1910, the Mikkelsen Islands . On the recommendation of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , the island was named after the British polar explorer Gino Watkins in 1952.
Web links
- Watkins Island. geographic.org, accessed September 15, 2015 .