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Corry Island

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Location
  
Antarctica

Highest elevation
  
510 m (1,670 ft)

Elevation
  
510 m

Length
  
4 km (2.5 mi)

Population
  
Uninhabited

Corry Island

Corry Island is an island 4 kilometres (2 nmi) long and 510 metres (1,670 ft) high, lying off the south coast of the Trinity Peninsula between Vega Island and Eagle Island. This is believed to be the feature sighted by a British expedition under James Clark Ross, 1839–43, and named Cape Corry for Thomas L. Corry, a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. In 1945, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted an archipelago in this area. The present application of this name is in accord with the FIDS "that the name of Corry should be perpetuated on the most conspicuous of these islands as seen from eastward (the direction from which it was seen by Ross)."

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Corry Island Wikipedia


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