Limpet Island

Limpet Island

Limpet Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	67°38′S 68°18′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Limpet Island is the southernmost of the Léonie Islands, Antarctica, lying in the entrance to Ryder Bay, close off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island. The Léonie Islands were discovered and first roughly surveyed in 1909 by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Limpet Island was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and so named by them because of the large number of limpet shells found there.

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

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