Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Eta Island

(Melchior Islands)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 18' 27" S 62° 54' 35" W
N of Omega Island, Melchior Islands (q.v.), Dallmann Bay, was roughly charted by Discovery Investigations in 1927; further charted by the United States Antarctic Service in 1941 and called North Star Island after the the United States Antarctic Service ship North Star; recharted by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition, 1942-43, and named Isla Eta after the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, in association with the names of other islands in this group.