Neny Island or (Neny Islands as a variant name) is an island long which rises to , lying northwest of
Roman Four Promontory and directly north of the mouth of
Neny Fjord Neny Fjord is a fjord which is long in an east–west direction and wide, between Red Rock Ridge and Roman Four Promontory on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Geography
* Mount Dudley
History
This coast was first explored in 1909 by ...
, off the west coast of
Graham Land
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in
Antarctica
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. Neny Island was discovered by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) (1934–1937) under
John Riddoch Rymill
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and named after nearby
Neny Fjord Neny Fjord is a fjord which is long in an east–west direction and wide, between Red Rock Ridge and Roman Four Promontory on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Geography
* Mount Dudley
History
This coast was first explored in 1909 by ...
.
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]
Named features
Several features on Neny Island have been charted and named by various Antarctic expeditions.
Store Point is the island's northernmost point. It was surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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(FIDS), who so named it because FIDS maintained an emergency food store on this point.[
Norseman Point is the easternmost point. First surveyed in 1936 by the British expedition under Rymill and later named by FIDS after the Norseman airplane which landed near the point to relieve the FIDS party on ]Stonington Island
Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerly ...
in February 1950.[
]
See also
* Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
* SCAR
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* Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and st ...
References
Islands of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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