Compass Island

Compass Island
Compass Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 68°38′S 67°48′W / 68.633°S 67.800°W / -68.633; -67.800Coordinates: 68°38′S 67°48′W / 68.633°S 67.800°W / -68.633; -67.800
Highest elevation 15 m (49 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Compass Island is a small rocky island 15 metres (50 ft) high, lying in Marguerite Bay 13 kilometres (7 nmi) northwest of the Terra Firma Islands. It was first seen and photographed from the air on 1 February 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition. It was first visited by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948, surveyed by them in 1949, and so named by them because of difficulties experienced here with compass bearings, eventually proved to be due to substitution of iron for copper wire in an anorak hood.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Compass Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-11-19.

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