Red Island (Antarctica)

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'''Red Island''' () is a circular, flat-topped island, in diameter and high, with reddish cliffs of [[volcanic rock]], lying northwest of [[Cape Lachman]], [[James Ross Island]], in [[Prince Gustav Channel]].<ref name="USGS"></ref> It is part of the [[James Ross Island Volcanic Group]] and was discovered and named by the [[Swedish Antarctic Expedition]] under [[Otto Nordenskjöld]], 1901-04.<ref name="USGS"/><ref name="GX"></ref> The island has a [[K–Ar dating|K–Ar date]] of 1.6 ± 0.2 million years.<ref name="GX"/>

== See also ==
* [[List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands]]

==References==


[[Category:Islands of Trinity Peninsula]]
[[Category:Volcanic islands]]
[[Category:Volcanoes of Graham Land]]
[[Category:Pleistocene volcanoes]]

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