Tower Island is an

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island long and high. It marks the north-east extent of Palmer Archipelago. It lies north-east of

Trinity Island Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island long and wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It lies east of Hoseason Island, south of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, an ...

, separated by Gilbert Strait. Both islands are separated from the

Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made ...

to the south by Orléans Strait, running northeast–southwest. The

Pearl Rocks The Pearl Rocks are a group of rocks covering an area by close to the west coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The name was given by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1955–57) and ...

lie off the West Coast of Tower Island. The island was named on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who described it as a round island.

Named features

A number of features on Tower Island have been charted and named by various Antarctic expeditions. The following description of features begins from the north and proceeds clockwise along the coast to the east.

East coast

The northernmost point of the island is called Cape Leguillou. It was charted by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, and named by him after

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, a surgeon on the expedition corvette . The name has been consistently used since that time. Ploski Cove (, ‘Zaliv Ploski’ \'za-liv 'plo-ski\), named after the village of

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in Bulgaria, is located to the east of the cape. It is and indents the coast by . Traverso Point forms the coast's southeastern edge. Harmanli Cove (, ) is a cove on the eastern cove of Tower Island. It indents the coast to a depth of . The cove is named after the town of Harmanli in southeastern Bulgaria. To the south is Cape Dumoutier, the eastern tip of Tower Island. It was named by d'Urville's expedition for

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, a surgeon with the expedition. Continuing south is Breste Cove, which is wide and deep. It is named for the settlement of Breste in northern Bulgaria. South of that is Castillo Point. Condyle Point is the southeast point of the island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC). The name is descriptive of the shape of this feature: a condyle is the rounded prominence at the end of a bone. The southernmost point of the island is Peña Point.

West coast

Ustina Point (, 'Nos Ustina' \'nos 'us-ti-na\) is a rocky point on the island's west coast. The point is named after the settlement of Ustina in southern Bulgaria. It is situated 2.6 km northwest of Peña Point. Closer to the north end of the island, Kranevo Point (, ‘Nos Kranevo’ \'nos 'kra-ne-vo\), named for the Bulgarian village of Kranevo, forms the south side of the entrance to Mindya Cove. Mindya Cove, named for Mindya, Bulgaria, is cove indenting the island's northwest coast for .

Coastal rock groups

Dumoulin Rocks The Dumoulin Rocks () are a group of rocks 4 nautical miles (7 km) northeast of Cape Leguillou, the northern tip of Tower Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, applied the na ...

Kendall Rocks The Kendall Rocks () are a group of pillar-shaped rocks, lying north of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The name "Kendall Group" appears northwest of this position on a chart based upon work by a British expedition under Command ...

References

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996. {{USGS Islands of the Palmer Archipelago