Bertha Island
| Bertha Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | William Scoresby Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 4 km | |
Bertha Island is a 4 km long island in the William Scoresby Archipelago off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located 2.5 km south of the island of Islay .
The island was discovered and named in February 1936 by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations on board the research vessel RRS William Scoresby . The namesake is not known.
Web links
- Bertha Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bertha Island on geographic.org (English)