Limpet Island
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Island in Antarctica
Limpet Island is located in Antarctica Limpet Island Limpet Island Location in Antarctica | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 67°38′S 68°18′W / 67.633°S 68.300°W / -67.633; -68.300 |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Limpet Island is the southernmost of the Léonie Islands, Antarctica, lying in the entrance to Ryder Bay, close off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island. The Léonie Islands were discovered and first roughly surveyed in 1909 by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Limpet Island was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and so named by them because of the large number of limpet shells found there.[1]
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[edit ]- ^ "Limpet Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Limpet Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
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