Query Island is a prominent rocky 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...

 lying between the foot of Clarke Glacier

Clarke Glacier (Graham Land)

Clarke Glacier is a 2 mile wide, 20 mile long glacier, located on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It flows west, along the north side of Sickle Mountain and the Baudin Peaksm, to Mikkelsen Bay....

 and Keyhole Island

Keyhole Island

Keyhole Island is a small rocky island lying 5 nautical miles southeast of the Terra Firma Islands in the southwest part of Mikkelsen Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who applied this name because of the presence of an...

 on the south side of Mikkelsen Bay

Mikkelsen Bay

Mikkelsen Bay is a bay, 15 miles wide at its mouth and indenting 10 miles, entered between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux along the W coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First seen from a distance in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but not recognized as a...

, off the west coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), it was so named because of the difficulty in deciding from a distance whether the feature was an island or part of the mainland.