Lipps Island
| Lipps Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ S , 64 ° 6 ′ W | |
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Lipps Island is a small and rocky island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 300 m west of Litchfield Island off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1975 after the American paleontologist Jere H. Lipps (* 1939), who from 1971 to 1974 led investigations into the occurrence of foraminifera in shallow waters around the Antarctic Peninsula as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program would have.
Web links
- Lipps Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lipps Island on geographic.org (English)