- Puffball Islands
Puffball Islands (coord|69|2|S|68|30|W|) is a scattered group of small, low, mainly ice-covered islands and rocks which extend about 10 nautical miles (18 km) in a NE-SW direction, lying in southern
Marguerite Bay off the west coast ofAntarctic Peninsula . The center of the group lies 23 nautical miles (43 km) north-northeast ofCape Jeremy . First visited and surveyed in 1948 by theFalkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The name, applied by FIDS, derives from association withMushroom Island which lies 14 nautical miles (26 km) northeast of this group.See also
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List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
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