Rowett Island | |
Map: | Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica |
Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Length Mi: | 0.5 |
Population: | uninhabited |
Country: | Antarctica |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Rowett Island is a rocky island 0.5miles long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands.[1] Rowett Island is located at . Rowett Island was known to American and British sealers as early as 1822. Rowett Island was named by members of a British expedition (1921-1922) under Ernest Shackleton for John Quiller Rowett, chief patron of the expedition.