Heroína Island

Heroína Island
Danger Islands (British Antarctic Territory)
Location
Location:	63°23’41"S, 54°36’23"W
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Heroína Island is one of the Danger Islands, a cluster of islets off Joinville Island, off the northern tip of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

This is the north-easternmost of Danger Islands. It was named Islote Ercilla by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-94), Spanish author of 'La Araucana' (1569), in which work Antarctica is mentioned. It was then called Islote Heroína by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1948-49, after the expedition ship, Heroína, and the current name is taken from that. It also appears as 'Heroine Island'.

References

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