The Outcast Islands are two small
islands, nearly apart, and a number of surrounding
rocks
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lying southwest of
Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of
Anvers Island in the
Palmer Archipelago of
Antarctica. The Outcast Islands were named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) following a survey in 1955 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The name arose because of their isolated position some distance from the other islands in the vicinity of
Arthur Harbor
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.
See also
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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 ...
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
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List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
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SCAR
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
References
Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
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