Meade Islands

62°27′04″S 60°04′03″W / 62.451222°S 60.0675°W / -62.451222; -60.0675ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsArea66 ha (160 acres)^[1]AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

The Meade Islands are a group of two large islands, Zverino Island and Cave Island, the minor Pisanitsa Island, and several rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.^[2] The surface areas of the first two islands are 48 hectares (120 acres)^[1] and 18 hectares (44 acres).^[1] respectively. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.

The islands were charted in 1935 by Discovery Investigations and named after C.M. Meade, Cartographer-in-charge in the Admiralty Hydrographic Office at that time.

Location

The midpoint of the group is located at 62°27′04.4″S 60°04′03″W / 62.451222°S 60.06750°W / -62.451222; -60.06750 which is 1.98 km (1.23 mi) west of Duff Point, Greenwich Island, 3.73 km (2.32 mi) north of Pomorie Point, 3.5 km (2.2 mi) east of Williams Point, 4 km (2.5 mi) southeast of Zed Islands and 3.9 km (2.4 mi) south-southeast of Pyramid Island (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

See also

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

Map

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

Notes

References

• Meade Islands. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer