Dieglman Island

Dieglman Island
Waters	Edisto Canal
Archipelago	Highjump Archipelago
Geographical location	66 ° 0 '30 " S , 100 ° 47' 40" E Coordinates: 66 ° 0 '30 " S , 100 ° 47' 40" E
length	6 km

The Dieglman Island is a 6 km long and mostly ice-covered island with numerous rocky outcrops off the Knox Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . In the Highjump Archipelago , it is located at the northwest end of the Edisto Canal .

It was mapped using aerial photographs from Operation Highjump (1946–1947), when it was mistaken for the shore zone of a bay . Participants of the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956–1958) were able to clear this mistake . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named the island after Max Eugene Diegelman (1922-1969), photographer for Operation Highjump.

Web links

Dieglman Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Dieglman Island on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 429-430: The US-ACAN falsely identifies an ED Dieglman as the namesake. However, there is no participant in Operation Highjump by this name.

[1] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 429-430: The US-ACAN falsely identifies an ED Dieglman as the namesake. However, there is no participant in Operation Highjump by this name.