Spume Island | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Location: | Antarctica |
Archipelago: | Palmer Archipelago |
Population: | 0 |
Country: | None |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Spume Island is a small, low, rocky island lying 1.5disp=flipNaNdisp=flip southwest of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It is located at . Spume Island was surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1956–1957. Spume Island was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) because heavy seas break over the island in a gale; spume is blown over it.[1]