Farmer Island
Farmer Island | ||
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Topographic map of the Marshall Archipelago with Farmer Island (right of center) | ||
Waters | Sulzberger Ice Shelf , Southern Ocean | |
Archipelago | Marshall Archipelago | |
Geographical location | 76 ° 38 ′ S , 147 ° 4 ′ W | |
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length | 22 km |
Farmer Island is a 22 km long and icy island in the Marshall Archipelago off the Saunders coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It is located 10 km north of Radford Island in the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) roughly mapped them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Floyd L. Farmer (1916-1993) of the United States Navy , chief locksmith on the icebreaker USS Glacier , which operated between 1961 and 1962 along the Saunders coast.
Web links
- Farmer Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Farmer Island on geographic.org (English)