Bakewell Island

Bakewell Island (Norwegian Bakewelløya ) is a small and icy island near the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located east of Lyddan Island in the southern part of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf .

The island was discovered on November 5, 1967 when a Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the United States Navy's VX-6 flight squadron flew over and mapped by the United States Geological Survey based on the aerial photographs taken. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after William Lincoln Bakewell (1888-1969), the only American participant in the endurance expedition (1914-1916) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .

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