Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Kappa Island

(Melchior Islands)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 19' 18" S 62° 59' 54" W
one of the Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, Palmer Archipelago, on W side of Melchior Harbour, was roughly charted by Discovery Investigations in 1927 and named after the tenth letter in the Greek alphabet, in association with the names of other islands in this group; recharted by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition, 1942 and 1943. The island was photographed from the air by the United States Navy, 1968-69.