Wisconsin Islands
| Wisconsin Islands | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | Duroch Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 17 ′ S , 57 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | approx. 12 | |
The Wisconsin Islands are a group of about a dozen small and rocky islands off the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northeastern part of the Duroch Islands , they are 1.5 km northeast of Largo Island .
Martin Halpern of the University of Wisconsin , who led a geological team to map these islands between 1961 and 1962, named them after his alma mater .
Web links
- Wisconsin Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wisconsin Islands on geographic.org (English)