Dolleman Island
| Dolleman Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Llanquihue Islands | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 37 ′ S , 60 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| length | 21.5 km | |
| width | 16 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Dolleman Island is an icy, 13.5 miles long and 10 miles wide island off the Black coast of Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 13 km east of Cape Boggs .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered it in December 1940. It is named after Hendrik Dolleman (1905–1990) from the Netherlands , tractor driver on this research trip.
Web links
- Dolleman Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dolleman Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hendrik Dolleman. Short biography on usas1939.org (accessed July 2, 2017).