Glinka Islands

Glinka Islands

Glinka Islands Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	69°23′S 72°17′W / 69.383°S 72.283°W / -69.383; -72.283Coordinates: 69°23′S 72°17′W / 69.383°S 72.283°W / -69.383; -72.283
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

The Glinka Islands are a small group of rocky islands in Lazarev Bay, Antarctica, immediately east of Rothschild Island. They were first photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and were mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, the Russian composer.^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Glinka Islands" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).