Gnomon Island

61°5′S 54°52′W / 61.083°S 54.867°W / -61.083; -54.867AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Gnomon Island is a small rocky island lying just north of Point Wild, on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted by Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition, 1914–1916, and so named by them because when viewed from Point Wild the shape of the feature is suggestive of a gnomon, the elevated arm of a sundial.^[1]

See also

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Gnomon Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.