Eichorst Island
| Eichorst Island | ||
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| Waters | Bismarck Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 64 ° 3 ′ W | |
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Eichorst Island is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Shortcut Island and the Surge Rocks off the southwest coast of Anvers Island . Its western end is divided into three parts, which appear like three separate cliffs when the water level is high .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island in 1975 after Marvin H. Eichorst (1905–1985), an amateur radio operator from Glenview , who between 1964 and 1972 maintained radio communications to the Palmer station .
Web links
- Eichorst Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eichorst Island on geographic.org (English)