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Francis Island

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Location
  
Antarctica

Width
  
9 km (5.6 mi)

Length
  
13 km (8.1 mi)

Population
  
Uninhabited

Francis Island

Francis Island is an island which is irregular in shape, 13 kilometres (7 nmi) long and 9 kilometres (5 nmi) wide, lying 22 kilometres (12 nmi) east-northeast of Choyce Point, off the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named it for S.J. Francis, a FIDS surveyor.

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Francis Island Wikipedia