Jigsaw Islands are a two small islands lying off the southwest end of Wiencke Island

Wiencke Island

Wiencke Island is an island long and from wide, about in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

, in the Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

. One of the islands was used as a main triangulation station by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57, and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in March 1957. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) because of the difficulty with which the station was recovered, the surveyors piecing together the available information bit by bit to narrow down the exact spot on the island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

where the station had been established.