Eagle Island, Antarctica
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Eagle Island, Antarctica is one of several islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land
, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent. It is an island in the continent/country of Antarctica. Separated from the Antarctic mainland by the 1.77 km wide Aripleri Passage
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Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent. It is an island in the continent/country of Antarctica. Separated from the Antarctic mainland by the 1.77 km wide Aripleri Passage
Aripleri Passage
Aripleri Passage is the 1.77 km wide passage between Eagle Island and Yatrus Promontory on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The passage is named after the medieval fortress of Aripleri in Southeastern Bulgaria.-Location:...
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Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.