Short Island

Short Island

Short Island (coord|63|57|S|60|24|W|) is an island lying 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Cape Page, close off the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Short Brothers, the British firm started by Eustace and Horace Short, who in 1909 received an order from the Wright brothers to build six aircraft, and thus earned the title of "the first manufacturers of aircraft in the world."

See also

* List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands


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