Wood Island (South Shetland Islands)

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Wood Island
View from Zemen Knoll to Miladinovi Islets (left), Wood Island (middle) and Desolation Island (right)
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 Coordinates: 62 ° 29 ′  S , 60 ° 18 ′  W
Wood Island (South Shetland Islands) (South Shetland Islands)
Wood Island (South Shetland Islands)

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.

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