Kuechle Island

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Kuechle Island
Kuechle Island (not shown on the map) is the northernmost of the DAILEY ISLANDS (altitude 59)
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 Coordinates: 77 ° 51 '45 "  S , 165 ° 14' 14"  O
Kuechle Island (Antarctica)
Kuechle Island
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.

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