Intercurrence Island () is an island long, the largest of the

Christiania Islands The Christiania Islands are a group of islands and rocks between Liège Island and Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. They were charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, who named the group for Christiania ( ...

, lying east-northeast of Liège Island at the northeastern end of the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

, off the northwestern coast of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. Though the origin of this name is unknown, it has appeared on maps for over a hundred years and its usage has been established internationally.

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Islands of the Palmer Archipelago {{PalmerArchipelago-geo-stub

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