Duke of York Island
| Duke of York Island | ||
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| Waters | Robertson Bay , Somow Lake | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 4 km | |
| Highest elevation | 555 m | |
The Duke of York Island ( English Duke of York Iceland ) is a mountainous, ice-free, 4 km long and up to 555 m high island before the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located on the southern part of Robertson Bay .
It was first mapped during the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898-1900) under the direction of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . Borchgrevink named it after George, Prince of Wales, 1st Duke of York (1865–1936), who later became King George V.
Web links
- Duke of York Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Duke of York Island on geographic.org (English)