Meadow islands
| Meadow islands | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 40 ′ S , 65 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Meadow Islands (English Vice Islands ) are a group of small islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands and are 4 km south of the Karelin Islands and off the east side of the Renaud Island .
The islands are first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Russian or Soviet climatologist and oceanographer Vladimir Juljewitsch Wiese (1886–1954), a pioneer of sea ice research .
Web links
- Vice Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vize Islands on geographic.org (English)