Final Island is the westernmost of the

Myriad Islands Myriad Islands () is a scattered group of small islands and rocks extending for about 5 nautical miles (9 km), lying west of the Dannebrog Islands, Dannebrog and Vedel Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted by the British Graham Land Exp ...

, lying northwest of the Snag Rocks in the

Wilhelm Archipelago The Wilhelm Archipelago is an island archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Wilhelm Archipelago consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and Hovgaard Island. The archipelago extends f ...

. It was mapped by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57 and from the helicopter of HMS ''Protector'' in March 1958. It was so named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

because it is the furthest west of the Myriad Islands and the westernmost of all the islands bordering

French Passage French Passage () is a passage through the Wilhelm Archipelago, extending in a northwest–southeast direction between Petermann Island, the Stray Islands, the Vedel Islands and the Myriad Islands to the north and the Argentine Islands, the Ana ...

References

Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago {{WilhelmArchipelago-geo-stub

See also

References