Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at coord|68|11|S|67|00|W|. Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow slope to Northeast Glacier on the mainland. Stonington Island was chosen as the site for the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) Expedition (1939-1941) and named after Stonington, Connecticut, home port of the sloop "Hero" in which Captain Nathaniel Palmer sighted the Antarctic continent in 1820.

The huts are protected under the Antarctic Treaty. [Stonehouse, Bernard. "Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans", John Wiley and Sons, 2002. ISBN 0471986658]

References

See also

* List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands


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