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    Rowett Island

    Isla Rowett

    61°17′S 55°13′W

    8 km) long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Rowett Island is located at 61°17′S 55°13′W. Rowett Island was known to American and British sealers as early as 1822.

    Rowett is a tiny rugged island off Cape Lookout just south of Elephant Island, Antarctica.
    Rowett is a tiny rugged island off Cape Lookout just south of Elephant Island, Antarctica.

    David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada / CC BY 2.0

    Terrain

    61°17′S 55°13′W

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    Rowett Island is a rocky island 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Rowett Island is located at 61°17′S 55°13′W. Rowett Island was known to American and British sealers as early as 1822. Rowett Island was named by members of a British expedition (1921-1922) under Ernest Shackleton for John Quiller Rowett, chief patron of the expedition.

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