Dean Island
| Dean Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 30 ′ S , 127 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| length | 43 km | |
| width | 22 km | |
| Highest elevation | 389 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Dean Island is a 43 km long, 22 km wide and year-round ice-covered island in the Getz Ice Shelf off the coast of the East Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It lies between Grant Island and Siple Island . With its North Cape Birdwell Point , the island touches the open sea at Wrigleygolf , an ice shelf bay of the unnamed marginal sea of the Southern Ocean west of the Amundsen Sea . The island marks the border between the Bakutis coast in the east and the Hobbs coast in the west.
The crew of the icebreaker USS Glacier discovered the island on February 5, 1962 from a distance of 30 km. It was named after Chief Warrant Officer Samuel Lester Dean (* 1925), who was working as an electrician on the USS Glacier at the time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dean Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed June 5, 2013
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 407 (English)