Mica Islands

The Mica Islands (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) are a group of about four mainly ice-covered islands lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Mount Guernsey and 6 nautical miles (11 km) 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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  1. ↑ "Mica Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-23.

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