Conway Island

Conway Island

Conway Island (66°8′S 65°28′W / 66.133°S 65.467°W / -66.133; -65.467) lies in Holtedahl Bay to the west of Lens Peak, off the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for William M. Conway, First Baron of Allington (1856–1937), English mountaineer and pioneer of polar skiing during his crossing of Vestspitsbergen in 1896.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Conway Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).