Feature Name (see definition): Lynch Island

Feature Class (see definition): Island

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 9169

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 60° 39' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 045° 36' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -60.65

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -45.6

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1956

Description (see definition): Island lying in the E part of Marshall Bay, close off the S coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Roughly charted in 1912-13 by Petter Sorlle, a Norwegian whaling captain, and surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel. Resurveyed in 1948-49 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) for Thomas B. Lynch, an American sealer who visited the South Orkney Islands in the schooner Express in 1880.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data