Dailey Islands
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| Waters | McMurdo Ice Shelf and McMurdo Sound | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 53 ′ S , 165 ° 8 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 5 | |
| Main island | West Dailey Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Dailey Islands (also called the Dailey Archipelago ) are a group of five small islands of volcanic origin off the Scott coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . They are located between 8 and 20 km northeast of Cape Chocolate in the northern part of the Ross Ice Shelf , which borders the McMurdo Sound . They include West Dailey Island , Juergens Island , Hatcher Island , Uberuaga Island and Kuechle Island .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered and named them. It is named after Frederick Ernest Dailey (1873–1961), the ship's carpenter on this research trip.
Web links
- Dailey Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dailey Islands on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 384 (English)