Yoke Island
| Yoke Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 58 ′ S , 61 ° 56 ′ W | |
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Yoke Iceland (of English yoke , yoke ' ) is an island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located west of the northern end of Liège Island .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them descriptively after their shape in 1960.
Web links
- Yoke Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yoke Island on geographic.org (English)