Cone Island
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| Cone Island | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 67°40’36"S, 69°9’26"W |
| Highest point: | height=200 feet |
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Cone Island is a distinctly cone-shaped island, a little island, which rises to 200 feet above sea level to the south of Cape Adriasola, the south-western point of Adelaide Island in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island was roughly charted by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1952-53, and named descriptively Islote Cono, which means 'cone islet' or Roca Cono. The name was regularised to 'Cone Island' following its recharting by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1963.
Outside links
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Cone Island
