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Roca Islands

group of islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2022
Entity authorityQ7353673 ↗
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Roca Islands (65°11′S 64°27′W) is a group of small islands between Cruls Islands and Anagram Islands on the south side of French Passage in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for Julio A. Roca, President of Argentina, 1880–86 and 1898–1904. The name was incorrectly applied to the Anagram Islands by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, but was reidentified with this group after further mapping by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1958.

See also

List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

This article incorporates public domain material from "Roca Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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“Roca Islands” enters the record as group of islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roca, Islands and group can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1880, 1898, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roca, Islands and group.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7353673. Authority coordinates are -65.183, -64.450. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1880, 1898 and 1904.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roca Islands” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.