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William Scoresby Archipelago

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Island is 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) long, and lies 1.9 kilometres (1 nmi) south of Islay at the east side of 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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Macfie Sound separates Islay from Bertha Island. The sound extends in an east–west direction, and is 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide at its narrowest point. It was named for Lieutenant A.F. Macfie, a chart-maker for DI. Hum Island is a small island in the sound between Islay and Bertha. Bertha
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The northernmost island of any note is Farrington Island. 3 kilometres (1.5 nmi) east is a group of small islands called the Klakkane Islands. The Klakkanes were charted and named
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At the southeast side of Islay is a small group called the Sheehan Islands. These were first discovered on February 18, 1931, by the
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archipelago in Scotland. McDonald Point marks the western end of Islay.
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are a separate group to the north of the William Scoresby Archipelago.
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which extends northward from the coast just east of
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Index

Macfie Sound
group of islands
William Scoresby Bay
Antarctica
archipelago
Discovery Investigations
RSS William Scoresby
Lars Christensen Expedition
Islay
Hebrides
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition
Douglas Mawson
nunataks
Harry Sheehan
Warnock Islands
Dales Island
"William Scoresby Archipelago"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
United States Department of the Interior
"Farrington Island"
"Klakkane Islands"
"Islay"
"Couling Island"
"McDonald Point"
"Sheehan Islands"
"Macfie Sound"
"Hum Island"
"Bertha Island"
"Warren Island"

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