From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jigsaw Islands
Jigsaw Islands
Jigsaw Islands (64°54′S 63°37′W / 64.9°S 63.617°W / -64.9; information bit by bit to narrow down the exact spot on
-63.617) are a two small islands lying off the southwest the island where the station had been established.
end of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. One of
the islands was used as a main triangulation station by
the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57,
See also
and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Sur- • List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
vey Expedition (FIDASE) in March 1957. So named by the This article incorporates public domain material from the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK- United States Geological Survey document "Jigsaw Islands"
APC) because of the difficulty with which the station was (content from the Geographic Names Information Sys-
recovered, the surveyors piecing together the available tem).
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