Lynch Island
Lynch Island is an island lying in the eastern part of Marshall Bay, close off the south coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica.Places of Interest
Highlights include Maling Peak and Robin Peak.
Maling Peak
Peak
Maling Peak is a mountain 430 metres high and is the southernmost of two conspicuous peaks 0.5 nautical miles northwest of Cape Vik on the south coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. Maling Peak is situated 3½ km west of Lynch Island.
Robin Peak
Peak
Robin Peak is a sharply defined rocky summit which is the northernmost peak on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Gordon de Quetteville Robin of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the leader at Signy Island base in 1947, who made the first detailed survey of the island. Robin Peak is situated 3½ km south of Lynch Island.
Cragsman Peaks
Peak
The Cragsman Peaks are peaks on the west side of Marshall Bay, extending from Cape Vik northwest to Coldblow Col on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Cragsman Peaks is situated 4 km west of Lynch Island.
Lynch Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.65261° or 60° 39′ 9″ southLongitude
-45.60696° or 45° 36′ 25″ westElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
38FP89WV+X6OpenStreetMap ID
way 201365321OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
6637282Wikidata ID
Q6708434
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lynch Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lynch”
- Chinese: “林奇島”
- Dutch: “Lynch Island”
- French: “île Lynch”
- French: “Île Lynch”
- German: “Lynch Island”
- Italian: “Isola Lynch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lynch Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lynch Island”
- Norwegian: “Lynch Island”
- Spanish: “Lynch, isla”
- Swedish: “Lynch Island”
- Swedish: “Lynch”
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