Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Heroína Island

(Danger Islands)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 23' 41" S 54° 36' 23" W
NE most of Danger Islands (q.v.) off SE Joinville Island, was called Islote Ercilla by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-94), Spanish author of 'La Araucana' (1569), in which work Antarctica is mentioned; also called Islote Heroína, by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition, 1948-49, after the expedition ship; named Heroine Island.