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Amiot Islands
The Amiot Islands are two groups of islands and rocks, the Ward Islands and Cumbers Reef, respectively, lying west of Cape Adriasola, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and were named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for A. Amiot, engineering director of the French Montevideo Co., Montevideo, Uruguay, which made repairs on the ship "Pourquoi-Pas". The islands were more accurately charted by the British Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1963.
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Ward Islands
Ward Islands () is a group of two small islands and off-lying rocks forming the southern part of the Amiot Islands, off the southwest part of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Herbert G.V. Ward, Chief Engineer of RRS John Biscoe, 1948–1962, which ship assisted the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit which charted this group in 1963.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands