Esplin Islands

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The Esplin Islands are a cluster of small, low islands, rising 20 feet above sea level, north-west of Adelaide, the southern point of Adelaide Island off he Loubet Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The islands were charted by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit from John Biscoe in 1963 and named after Sub-Lieut. (later Capt.) Christopher John Esplin-Jones, RN (b.1940), a member of the survey unit.

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