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William Scoresby Bay. Warren Island is a small island in William Scoresby Bay, close south of the west end of Bertha Island. Point Appleby marks the western coast of an unnamed island .8 nmi (1.5 km; 0.92 mi) south of Warren. It was charted and named by DI personnel as a point on the eastern shore of the bay, but air photos from the LCE indicated that it was actually a point on a small island near the bay shore.
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