(Wynne-) Edward Island
Antarctica /
Sector claimed by Argentina/Chile/UK /
Academician Vernadskiy - permanent station of the Ukraine /
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The second largest and innermost of the group of islands lying in the entrance to Leroux Bay, off the W coast of Graham Land. Mapped from air photos and surveys by FIDS, 1955-57. Named by UK-APC for Lt. Cecil J.C. Wynne-Edwards, RN, leader of a hydrographic survey unit in the area, 1956-57 and 1957-58.
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Coordinates: 65°34'52"S 64°18'41"W
- Comrie Glacier 23 km
- Trooz Glacier 38 km
- Wiggins Glacier 46 km
- Penola Strait 53 km
- Talbot Glacier 62 km
- Zubov Bay 74 km
- Wiencke Island 103 km
- Neumayer Channel 103 km
- Fournier Bay 134 km
- Wilhelmina Bay 150 km
- Leroux Bay 5.8 km
- Chavez Island 12 km
- Bigo Bay 18 km
- Beascochea Bay 19 km
- Cape Garcia 25 km
- Collins Bay 29 km
- Felipe Solo Peninsula 31 km
- Barilari Bay 43 km
- Kiev Peninsula 45 km
- Antarctic Peninsula 63 km