Eagle Island, Antarctica

Eagle Island
Location of Trinity Peninsula
Eagle Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 63°39′S 57°27′W / 63.650°S 57.450°W / -63.650; -57.450Coordinates: 63°39′S 57°27′W / 63.650°S 57.450°W / -63.650; -57.450
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Eagle Island is one of several islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent. It is an island in the continent of Antarctica,[1] separated from the Antarctic mainland by the 1.77 km wide Aripleri Passage.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

  1. ↑ ESA Science & Technology: Graham Land


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