Holmes Island
Holmes Island is an island 1.5 nautical miles long, lying south of Vieugue Island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for…Holmes Island
- Type: Island
- Description: one of the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Holmes Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Holmes”
- Chinese: “霍姆斯島”
- Dutch: “Holmes Island”
- German: “Holmes Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Holmes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Holmes Island”
- Spanish: “Holmes, isla”
- Swedish: “Holmes (ö)”
- Swedish: “Holmes Island”
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