Dot Island in the sub-Antarctic () is a tiny
island lying 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) west of
Tern Island in the south part of the
Bay of Isles
The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and receding , lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands ...
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South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. It was first charted by
Robert Cushman Murphy in 1912–13 and surveyed in 1929–30 by
Discovery Investigations personnel, who probably so named it because of its size and minute appearance when represented on charts.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of South Georgia
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