Mica Islands is a group of about four mainly ice-covered islands lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Mount Guernsey

Mount Guernsey

Mount Guernsey is an isolated, mainly ice-covered mountain, 1,250 m, standing 6 nautical miles north of the summit of Mount Edgell, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The name "Ile Guernesey" was given in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, after the island of Guernsey...

 and 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeast of Cape Jeremy

Cape Jeremy

Cape Jeremy is a cape marking the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land. It was discovered by the British Graham Land Expedition , 1934–37, under Rymill, who named it for Jeremy Scott, son of J.M. Scott, who served as...

, off the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. First seen from the air and photographed by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) 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 (FIDS), and so named by them because there is mica in the schists which form them.