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Tanner Island
Tanner
Island
is the westernmost and largest of the
Pickersgill Islands
,
rising
to 145m off the
south coast
of
South Georgia
. Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for
Dr
. P.W.G. Tanner, a
British Antarctic Survey
geologist
who worked on
the island
during the
1975-76
field
season.