Lauff Island
Lauff Island | ||
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Topographic map (1: 500,000) of the northern part of Siple Island with Lauff Island (above) | ||
Waters | Amundsen Sea , Southern Ocean | |
Geographical location | 73 ° 3 ′ S , 126 ° 8 ′ W | |
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Lauff Island is a small island off the Bakutis coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It is 3 km north of Cape Dart from Siple Island .
The island was discovered and photographed from the air during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Bernard John Lauff (1919–1995) of the United States Navy , commander of the icebreaker USS Glacier in Operation Deep Freeze II, which ran from 1956 to 1957 .
Web links
- Lauff Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lauff Island on geographic.org (English)