Eagle Island is one of several islands around the

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent. It is an island in the continent of Antarctica, separated from the Antarctic mainland by the 1.77 km wide

Aripleri Passage Aripleri Passage ( bg, Проток Ариплери, Protok Aripleri \'pro-tok a-ri-'ple-ri\) is the 1.77 km wide passage between Eagle Island and Yatrus Promontory on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. The pass ...

. It is volcanic in origin, having been K-Ar dated 1.7 ± 0.2 and 2.0 ± 0.2 million years old. It forms part of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group. During the Southern Hemisphere

summer Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, wit ...

of 2019-2020 three melting events occurred on Trinity peninsula, in November 2019, January 2020, and particularly February 6- February 11, 2020, during which 106 millimeters of snow melted, forming melt ponds on Eagle Island. The nine day heatwave in early February 2020 melted about 20% of the island's snow cover.

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Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

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Islands of Trinity Peninsula Volcanic islands Pleistocene volcanoes {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub

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