Napier Island
  Napier Island | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 69°14′S 67°47′W / 69.233°S 67.783°W |
| Length | 1.5 km (0.93 mi) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Napier Island is an island, 1.5 kilometres (0.8 nmi) long, in the southeastern part of
UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC). The name was amended to Napier Island by the UK-APC after a general eastward recession of the Wordie Ice Front (around 1999) revealed it was an island. In association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, it was named after John Napier (1550-1617), the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms
and published his first tables in 1614.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Napier Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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