Mackerel Island [SEP] continent
Mackerel Island
Mackerel Island () is an island immediately west of Flounder Island in the Fish Islands, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after the mackerel as it is one of the Fish Islands.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Atka mackerel
The Atka mackerel ("Pleurogrammus monopterygius") is a mackerel in the family Hexagrammidae. Atka mackerel are common to the northern Pacific ocean, and are one of only two members of the genus "Pleurogrammus" - the other being the Arabesque greenling ("Pleurogrammus azonus"). The Atka mackerel was named for Atka Island ("Atx̂ax̂" in Aleut), the largest island of the Andreanof islands, a branch of the Aleutians.
Taxonomy.
The Atka mackerel was originally described under the genus