Lamplugh Island
| Lamplugh Island | ||
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 38 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| length | 16 km | |
The Lamplugh Island is an ice-covered and about 16 km long island in front of the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located around 6.5 km north of the Whitmer Peninsula .
The island was sighted for the first time during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), but was not mapped until participants of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . Shackleton named it after the British geologist and geographer George William Lamplugh (1859-1926), the scientific patron of the Nimrod expedition.
Web links
- Lamplugh Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lamplugh Island on geographic.org (English)
- Lamplugh Island. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 186 (English)