# False Island

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Not to be confused with [Phantom Island](/source/Phantom_Island).

**False Island** ([64°31′S 62°53′W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=64_31_S_62_53_W)) is the largest of three islands lying at the east side of [Hackapike Bay](/source/Hackapike_Bay), off the northeast coast of [Anvers Island](/source/Anvers_Island), in the [Palmer Archipelago](/source/Palmer_Archipelago). Two islands were charted in this approximate position by the [French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05](/source/French_Antarctic_Expedition,_1903%E2%80%9305), under [Jean-Baptiste Charcot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Charcot). False Island was named by [Discovery Investigations](/source/Discovery_Investigations) personnel on the [*Discovery*](/source/RRS_Discovery) in 1927.[1]

## Other False Islands

There are two islands in [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia) each named False Island. One is near Onslow in the north-west of the state. The other is near Albany off the south coast.

## See also

- [List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_sub-Antarctic_islands)

## References

1. 4751. Retrieved 2012-03-13.

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