McGuire Island
McGuire Island is an island in the northeast portion of the Joubin Islands, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Thomas J. McGuire, an oiler in RV Hero in her first voyage to Antarctica and Palmer Station in 1968.McGuire Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“McGuire Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “McGuire Island (pulo sa Antarctica)”
- Cebuano: “McGuire Island”
- Chinese: “麥圭爾島”
- Dutch: “McGuire Island”
- German: “McGuire Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “McGuire Island”
- Swedish: “McGuire Island”
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