González Island

González Island (62°29′S 59°40′W / 62.483°S 59.667°W / -62.483; -59.667Coordinates: 62°29′S 59°40′W / 62.483°S 59.667°W / -62.483; -59.667) is a small island on the south side of the entrance to Iquique Cove, Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands. On its west side the island is linked by a split to a smaller island, which is covered at high tide. The island was charted by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1947, and commanded by Capitan de Navio Federico Guesalaga Toro, who named it after Ernesto González Navarrete, captain of the ship Iquique on the expedition.^[1]

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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