DeAtley Island
| DeAtley Island | ||
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| Waters | Ronne Entrance | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 15 ′ S , 73 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| length | 55 km | |
The DeAtley Island is a large and icy island off the English coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 16 km east of Spaatz Island on the south side of the Ronne Entrance at the south-western end of George VI Sound .
It was sighted and roughly mapped by participants in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), whose leader, the American polar explorer Finn Ronne , later named it after Colonel Ellsworth F. DeAtley (1905–2000) of the United States Navy and his Ms. Thelma (* 1905) named who had provided the expedition with clothing and provisions.
Web links
- DeAtley Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DeAtley Island on geographic.org (English)