Embassy Islands

The Embassy Islands are two small islands, the westernmost of the Dion Islands, lying 13 kilometres (7 nmi) south of Adelaide Island. The Dion Islands were first sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. This feature was surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named "Embassy Rock" by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because of its detached position in association with Emperor Island. In 1963 the British Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit found there were two islands, not one as previously supposed.[1]

Embassy Islands
Embassy Islands
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates67°53′S 68°45′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

See also
  • List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References
  1. "Embassy Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-03-01.

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