Francis Island
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| Francis Island | |
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| Location: | 67°37’54"S, 64°44’51"W |
| Highest point: | 2,313 feet |
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Francis Island is an island off the Bowman Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The island is irregular in shape, 7 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, lying 12 nautical miles east-northeast of Choyce Point, rising to 2313 feet above sea level within the Larsen Ice Shelf, off Whirlwind Inlet.
The island was discovered and photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, when it was described as two separate islands. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it for S.J. Francis, an FIDS surveyor; this survey identified that it is one island.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Francis Island
