Burke Island
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| Waters | Amundsen Lake | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 14 ′ S , 104 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| length | 30.57 km | |
| width | 10.94 km | |
| surface | 334.43 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Burke Island is an ice-covered, uninhabited island in the Amundsen Sea off the Walgreen coast of the west Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It has an area of about 334.43 km² , which corresponds to a length of 30.57 km and an approximate width of 10.94 km. It is located about 58.52 km southwest of Cape Waite at the end of the King Peninsula .
Aerial photographs of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron in 1960 were used to map them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1961 after Arleigh Burke (1901-1996), then Chief of Naval Operations .
Web links
- Burke Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ General information. United Nations Environment Program . Accessed February 15, 2017