Observations in the South Sandwich Islands, 1962

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Holdgate, M.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1963
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Trench; Leskov Island; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526880/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400053511

The South Sandwich Islands lie between lats. 56° 18′ S. and 59° 28′ S., and between longs. 26° 14′ W., and 28° 11′ W. There are eleven islands, of which ten form a curved chain stretching north and south while the eleventh, Leskov Island, lies to the west of the group near its northern end. The grou...