Wyatt Island
| Wyatt Island | ||
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| Waters | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 20 ′ 16 ″ S , 67 ° 41 ′ 8 ″ W | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 3 km | |
The Wyatt Island is an 8 km long and 3 km wide island off the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3 km south of Day Island near the middle of the Laubeuf Fjord .
The island was first measured in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . This gave the island the provisional name South Island ( English for South Island ). In 1948 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey. The name that is used today is named after Vice Admiral Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt (1893–1981), hydrograph of the Royal Navy from 1945 to 1950.
Web links
- Wyatt Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wyatt Island on geographic.org (English)