Wood Island (South Shetland Islands)
Wood Island | ||
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View from Zemen Knoll to Miladinovi Islets (left), Wood Island (middle) and Desolation Island (right) | ||
Waters | Hero Bay | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 62 ° 29 ′ S , 60 ° 18 ′ W | |
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Wood Island is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in Hero Bay on Livingston Island , southeast of Desolation Island .
The first mapping goes back to the British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793-1827), who visited the southern Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821. In December 1820, Fildes named a natural harbor on Desolation Island as Wood Harbor or Port Wood . He later changed this name to Blythe Bay, which is still called today . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred Filde's original name to the island described here in 1958.
Web links
- Wood Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wood Island on geographic.org (English)