Kuechle Island
Kuechle Island | ||
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Kuechle Island (not shown on the map) is the northernmost of the DAILEY ISLANDS (altitude 59) | ||
Waters | McMurdo Ice Shelf | |
Archipelago | Dailey Islands | |
Geographical location | 77 ° 51 '45 " S , 165 ° 14' 14" O | |
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length | 500 m | |
width | 400 m | |
Highest elevation | 59 m | |
Residents | uninhabited |
Kuechle Island is an island off the Scott coast of East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the northernmost island in the group of Dailey Islands and is located 1.5 km northwest of Uberuaga Island . It is around 500 meters long, almost 400 meters wide, and reaches a height of 59 meters.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2000 after the biologist Valerian B. Kuechle of the University of Minnesota , who carried out population studies of Weddell seals in Erebus Bay and at McMurdo from 1968 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1972 as part of the United States Antarctic Program. Sund had performed.
Web links
- Kuechle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kuechle Island on geographic.org (English)