Cone Island

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Cone Island

Adelaide Island Group
(British Antarctic Territory)

Location
Location: 67°40’36"S, 69°9’26"W
Highest point: height=200 feet
Data

Cone Island is a distinctly cone-shaped island, a little island, which rises to 200 feet above sea level to the south of Cape Adriasola, the south-western point of Adelaide Island in the British Antarctic Territory.

The island was roughly charted by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1952-53, and named descriptively Islote Cono, which means 'cone islet' or Roca Cono. The name was regularised to 'Cone Island' following its recharting by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1963.

Outside links

  • Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Cone Island