
Chionis Island
(Awl Point)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 63° 52' 59" S 60° 37' 59" W
off SE coast of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, was called Snow Island by the whalers; following air photography by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57, named Chionis Island after the sheathbill (Chionis alba), a common white bird in this region.