Jump to content

Manciple Island

Coordinates: 64°56′S 63°56′W / 64.933°S 63.933°W / -64.933; -63.933
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jaguar (talk | contribs) at 20:06, 21 November 2015 (→‎References: remove redundant category using AWB). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Manciple Island (64°56′S 63°56′W / 64.933°S 63.933°W / -64.933; -63.933) is an island lying between Reeve Island and Host Island in the Wauwermans Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago of Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952. The island was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 after the Manciple, one of the characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Manciple Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-08-01.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Manciple Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


Stub icon

This Wilhelm Archipelago location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manciple_Island&oldid=691722877"