Latady Island
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| Waters | Bellingshausensee ( Southern Ocean ) | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 55 ′ S , 75 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| length | 115 km | |
| width | 48 km | |
| surface | 3 300 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Latady Island ( English Latady Island ) is an ice- covered island in West Antarctica . It is 72 km south of Charcot Island and west of Alexander Island , and forms the southeastern boundary of the Wilkins Ice Shelf . The island is about 60 km long, 40 km wide and has an area of 3,300 km². In 1929 Sir Hubert Wilkins saw an ice-covered structure at this point and described it, but neither recognized that it was an island, nor did he map it separately.
Latady Island was photographed from the air during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) in 1947 and 1948 and mapped using these photos in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the island in 1961 after William Robertson Latady (1918–1979), an aerial photographer and navigator of the flight of the RARE.
Web links
- 'Webcam' from Space Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR)
- Latady Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Latady Island on geographic.org (English)