Latitude and longitude of Booth Island

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Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and rising to 980 m (3,215 ft) off the northwest coast of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. Booth Island is located at (65°4′48″S64°0′0″W). Discovered and named by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann 1873–74, probably for Oskar Booth or Stanley Booth, or both, members of the Hamburg Geographical Society at that time. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names has rejected the name "Wandel Island", applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, in favor of the original naming.

Latitude: -65° 04' 48.00" S
Longitude: -64° 00' 0.00" W

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GPS coordinates of Booth Island, Antarctica

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