Gould Island (Antarctica)
| Gould Island | ||
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| Waters | Sulzberger Ice Shelf , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Marshall Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 7 '34 " S , 148 ° 4' 56" W | |
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| length | 5 km | |
| width | 1.8 km | |
| surface | 7 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Gould Island is a 5 km long and icy island in the Marshall Archipelago off the Saunders coast of Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Sulzberger Ice Shelf , it is 350 m north of Spencer Island and 4.8 km northeast of Steventon Island .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1970 after Lieutenant Stuart S. Gould of the US Navy Reserve Forces, dentist on the McMurdo Station in 1967.
Web links
- Gould Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gould Island on geographic.org (English)