Bald Island, Weddell Island
Bald Island is an uninhabited island of the Weddell Island Group in the Falkland Islands.[1] It lies off Beacon Point, on the west side of the entrance to Chatham Harbour.
Bald Island | |
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 Satellite image of Weddell Island | |
  Bald Island Penn Island shown within the Falkland Islands | |
| Coordinates: 51.77608°S 60.96422°W | |
| Country | Falkland Islands |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (FKST) |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all islands and all inhabited islands in the Falklands respectively. | |
A post 1770 large scale, southeast-up map of Chatham Harbour (Puerto de San Joseph in the title); the illustration shows a north view of the harbour entrance marked by Bald Island (island “A”), with Mount Weddell prominent in the background
Maps
- The Falkland Islands. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901
- Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007
- Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
- Falkland Islands. Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
- Map 500k--xm20-4. 1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)
References
- Bald Island. Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database
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