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Matthews Island
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Matthews Island
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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