Hutchinson Island (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Sulzberger Ice Shelf , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Marshall Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 47 ′ S , 148 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| length | 25 km | |
Hutchinson Island is an ice-covered island in the Marshall Archipelago off the Saunders coast of Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is located 16 km east of Vollmer Island in the middle of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the island based on its own measurements and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Peter Arne Hutchinson (* 1930) of the US Navy, operations officer on board of the icebreaker USS Glacier , which was in service off the Saunders coast between 1961 and 1962.
Web links
- Hutchinson Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hutchinson Island on geographic.org (English)