Dales Island
| Dales Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | William Scoresby Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 11 ′ S , 59 ° 44 ′ E | |
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Dales Island is a small island in the William Scoresby Archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is there 1.5 km north of the Warnock Islands .
The island was discovered and named in February 1936 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations on board the research vessel RRS William Scoresby . It is named after Bernard Dales (1889–1978), chief engineer on this ship.
Web links
- Dales Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dales Island on geographic.org (English)