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Smith Island
Smith Island, the southwesternmost island of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named for explorer William Smith; 40 km long, rising to about 2,100 m at Mount Foster, with blueschist subduction-complex rocks metamorphosed 58-47 Ma.
Snow Island
Snow Island (Isla Nevada) is an island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°46'S 61°23'W, with President Head at its east end, ice-free President Head Peninsula, and a vanished chinstrap penguin colony.
South Sandwich Islands
South Sandwich Islands: uninhabited UK Overseas Territory volcanic arc (11 islands, ~350 km) in the South Atlantic, 1,600 km from South America and Antarctica; named by Cook in 1775; disputed by Argentina.
Sugarloaf Island
Sugarloaf Island: name of several small islands, notably a seabird-rich islet off Clarence Island, South Shetland Islands (61°11'S 54°00'W), and a monitored living-shoreline island at Morehead City, North Carolina.
Table Island
Table Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: island northwest of Fort William, Robert Island, at 62°20'34.8"S 59°48'29.7"W; charted by Bransfield in 1820 as Falcon Island and renamed by sealers for its shape.
The Watchkeeper
The Watchkeeper (also Flat Isle, Isla Flat, Islote Vigía) is a low off-shore rock island in the South Shetland Islands at 62°18'S 59°49'W, north of Table Island; named by sealers in 1821-1822 and renamed by the Discovery Investigations in 1934-35.
Zed Islands
The Zed Islands are a small group of islands lying north of Williams Point on the northeast coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.