Vaughan Island

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Vaughan Island

Willis Islands
(South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands
)

Location

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Location: 54°0’21"N, 38°11’4"W
Data

Vaughan Island is one of the Willis Islands, which lie off the western tip of South Georgia. It lies between Main Island and Trinity Island.

The island was charted from HMS Owen in 1960-61 and called 'Sugarloaf Island', descriptively from its shape. It was later named 'Vaughan Island' after Lieutenant Commander Hugh Lawrence Folliott Vaughan (b. 1926), First Lieutenant of the Owen.

References

  • Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Vaughan Island
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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South Sandwich Islands:

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