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Meade Islands
Part of South Shetland Islands
The Meade Islands are a group of two large islands, Zverino Island and Cave Island, the minor Pisanitsa Island, and several rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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The Meade Islands are a group of two large islands, Zverino Island and Cave Island, the minor Pisanitsa Island, and several rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The surface areas of the first two islands are 48 hectares (120 acres) and 18 hectares (44 acres). respectively. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers. The islands were charted in 1935 by Discovery Investigations and named after C.M. Meade, Cartographer-in-charge in the Admiralty Hydrographic Office at that time.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands2
- Minor islands0
- Islets1
- Rocks & skerries0
Major islands
Cave Island
- Area
- 0.14 km²
Cave Island is an island marked by a large cavern in its south side, which is the second largest of the Meade Islands lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Zverino Island
- Area
- 0.46 km²
Islets
- Pisanitsa Island0.01 km²
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Islands by area
| Zverino Island | 0.46 km² |
| Cave Island | 0.14 km² |
| Pisanitsa Island | 0.01 km² |
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- Pomorie-Livingston. Lyubomir Ivanov / CC BY-SA 3.0