Symington Islands is a group of small islands lying 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of Lahille Island

Lahille Island

Lahille Island is an island 3 nautical miles long, lying 2 nautical miles west of Nunez Point off the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and charted as a point on the coast which Charcot named after Fernando Lahille Argentine naturalist...

, in the Biscoe Islands

Biscoe Islands

Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Rabot, Lavoisier and Watkins, lying parallel to the W coast of Graham Land and extending some in a NE–SW direction...

. Charted 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) under Rymill, 1934-37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for J.D.L. Symington, senior air photographer of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in this area in 1956-57.