Dakers Island
| Dakers Island | ||
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| Waters | Lenie passage | |
| Archipelago | Joubin Islands , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 64 ° 23 ′ W | |
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Dakers Island is an island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . In the eastern section of the Joubin Islands , it lies between Hartshorne Island and McGuire Island .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1975 after Hugh Brennan Dakers (1927-2011), cook on RV Hero serving the National Science Foundation on their Antarctic voyage to Palmer Station in 1968.
Web links
- Dakers Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dakers Island on geographic.org (English)