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    Matthews Island

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    Matthews Island is the largest of the Robertson Islands in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It lies immediately south-east of Coronation Island, from which it is separated by a narrow channel known as the Divide.

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    Matthews Island is the largest of the Robertson Islands in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It lies immediately south-east of Coronation Island, from which it is separated by a narrow channel known as the Divide. Matthews Island was mapped as part of Coronation Island until January 1957 when a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) party established its insularity. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Drummond H. Matthews, a FIDS geologist at Signy Island in 1956.

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    Nearest islands

    Also in Robertson Islands

    • Skilling Island

      0.73 km²▲ 78 m

      Major islands

    • Robertson Islands

      0.56 km²▲ 166 m

      Major islands

    • Steepholm

      0.24 km²▲ 76 m

      Minor islands

    • Unnamed island

      0.18 km²▲ 103 m

      Minor islands

    • Unnamed island

      0.15 km²▲ 31 m

      Minor islands

    • Atriceps Island

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      Minor islands

    Also in Scotia Arc

    Also in South Orkney Islands

    Sources

    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Talus
    • Wikidata
    • Wikipedia