Flat Island (Viktorialand)
| Flat Island | ||
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| Waters | Robertson Bay | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| Highest elevation | 480 m | |
Flat Island (from English flat , flat, even, smooth ” ) is an island towering up to 480 m with a flattened, table mountain-like summit. It is located in the mouth of the Shipley Glacier off the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . The northeastern extension, Cape Barrow , marks the western limit of the entrance to Robertson Bay .
The island was mapped and named descriptively by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Flat Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flat Island on geographic.org (English)