Alcock Island () is an island lying west of Charles Point in Hughes Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant Hughes Bay ( is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. The name Penguin Island was used for the feature by whalers operating in the area in 1922. Since this name has not been used on published maps and is a duplication of an earlier name, it has been rejected and a new name substituted. Alcock Island is for Sir John W. Alcock (1892-1919), who, with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight on June 14-15, 1919. Sir John William Alcock KCB DSC (5 November 1892 &ndash 18 December 1919 was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who together with navigator Lieutenant Sir Arthur Whitten Brown KBE (23 July 1886 &ndash 4 October 1948 was a Scottish aviator
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This article incorporates text from Alcock Island, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government. This is a List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Sub-Antarctic islands are Islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica north of the Antarctic The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout The United States Geological Survey ( USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U
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