Weller Island
Weller Island is an island lying east of Snodgrass Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Samuel Weller, Mr.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Krivus Island and Smiggers Island.
Krivus Island
Islet
Krivus Island is the mostly ice-covered island on the east side of Johannessen Harbour in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature extends 920 m in north-south direction and 1.06 km in east-west direction.
Smiggers Island
Islet
Smiggers Island is an island lying 1 nautical mile southeast of Weller Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.
Snodgrass Island
Island
Snodgrass Island is an island 2.5 nautical miles long lying northeast of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Snodgrass Island is situated 3½ km west of Weller Island.
Weller Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island off Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Weller Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Weller”
- Chinese: “韋勒島”
- Dutch: “Weller Island”
- German: “Weller Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Weller Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weller Island”
- Norwegian: “Weller Island”
- Spanish: “Weller, isla”
- Swedish: “Weller Island”
- Swedish: “Weller”
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Highlights include Wardle Entrance and Johannessen Harbor.
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