Mica Islands

Mica Islands
Mica Islands

Location in Antarctica

Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 69°20′S 68°36′W / 69.333°S 68.600°W / -69.333; -68.600Coordinates: 69°20′S 68°36′W / 69.333°S 68.600°W / -69.333; -68.600
Administration
None
Demographics
Population Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

The Mica Islands are a group of about four mainly ice-covered islands lying 13 kilometres (7 nmi) west of Mount Guernsey and 11 kilometres (6 nmi) northeast of Cape Jeremy, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. They were first seen from the air and photographed by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936, and later roughly mapped from the photographs. The islands were visited and surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and so named by them because there is mica in the schists which form them.[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mica Islands" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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