DeLaca Island
| DeLaca Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 64 ° 6 ′ W | |
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DeLaca Island is a small, U- shaped island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 1.3 km west of Bonaparte Point off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
The island is one of two main areas of the United States Antarctic Research Program for the study of terrestrial arthropods in Antarctica . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1975 after the biologist Ted E. DeLaca of the University of California, Davis , who worked in the area between 1971 and 1974.
Web links
- DeLaca Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- DeLaca Island on geographic.org (English)