Bratina Island

Bratina Island
Topographic map (1: 250,000) with Bertina Island (top center)
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea
Archipelago	Ross Archipelago
Geographical location	78 ° 1 ′  S , 165 ° 32 ′  E Coordinates: 78 ° 1 ′  S , 165 ° 32 ′  E
Highest elevation	160  m
Residents	uninhabited

Bratina Island is a small island in the Ross Archipelago . It is enclosed by the Ross Ice Shelf on the northern tip of the Brown Peninsula off the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Joseph H. Bratina (1914-2006), chief aircraft machinist of the VX-6 flight squadron at McMurdo Station from 1958 to 1959, from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1962.

Web links

• Bratina Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Bratina Island on geographic.org (English)