Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Darwin Island

(Danger Islands)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 26' 11" S 54° 43' 39" W
the largest of the Danger Islands (q.v.), SE of Joinville Island, was roughly charted by Ross, 29 December 1842, and named after Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82), naturalist; author of 'The Origin of Species' (1859). The island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay', 1953-54 and 1958-61.