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Sterna Island
Sterna
Island
is a
small island
lying
0.7
nautical miles
north
of
Darboux Island
, off the
west coast
of
Graham Land
. First charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition
under
Rymill
, 1934–37. So named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
because a large number of
terns
breed
here.