McCarthy Island as named after Timothy McCarthy, who sailed on the "Endurance" during an expedition for the Antarctic under which captain?
McCarthy Island (South Georgia) McCarthy Island is an island, 1 nmi long, lying in the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Timothy McCarthy, a seaman on the "Endurance" during the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1914–16. McCarthy accompanied Shackleton in the "James Caird" from Elephant Island to King Haakon Bay.
Kopaitic Island Kopaitic Island is an island lying 0.3 nmi west of Cape Legoupil in the Duroch Islands, Antarctica. It was named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1947 for Lieutenant Boris Kopaitic O'Neill, the leader of the Chilean party at Greenwich Island in 1947.