Mica Islands

Mica Islands (69°20′S 68°36′W / 69.333°S 68.6°W / -69.333; -68.6) is a group of about four mainly ice-covered islands lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Mount Guernsey and 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeast of Cape Jeremy, off the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First seen from the air and photographed by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) in 1936, and later roughly mapped from the photographs. The islands were visited and surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and so named by them because there is mica in the schists which form them.

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

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

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