Fuller Island
| Fuller Island | ||
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| Waters | Cacapon Inlet | |
| Archipelago | Highjump Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 6.5 km | |
| width | 2.5 km | |
The Fuller Island ( English Fuller Iceland , Russian остров Кашалот ostrow Kaschalot , German , Island sperm whale ' ) is an island of Highjump Archipelago , 3 km south of the Thomas Island on the south side of the Cacapon Inlet on the Knox Coast of the East Antarctic Wilkeslands lies.
It was mapped using aerial photographs from Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island in 1956 after Harold Francis Fuller (1920-2006), a member of the aircraft crew under Lieutenant Commander David Eli Bunger (1909-1971), who dared to land in this area in February 1947.
Web links
- Fuller Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fuller Island on geographic.org (English)