Snow Island (South Shetland Islands)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox islands Snow Island or Isla Nevada is a completely ice-covered island, Template:Convert in size, lying Template:Convert southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area is Template:Convert.<ref>L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Template:ISBN</ref> This island was known to both American and British sealers as early as 1820, and the name has been well established in international usage for over 100 years.

Maps

• Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822

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Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring Snow Island

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

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