Lauff Island

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Lauff Island
Topographic map (1: 500,000) of the northern part of Siple Island with Lauff Island (above)
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 Coordinates: 73 ° 3 ′  S , 126 ° 8 ′  W
Lauff Island (Antarctica)
Lauff Island

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 .

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