Lyddan Island
| Lyddan Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 25 ′ S , 20 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| length | 72 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Lyddan Island ( English Lyddan Island ; also Lyddan Ice Rise , translated Lyddan ice dome ) is an ice-covered island on the southwestern edge of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf , which separates it from the Brunt Ice Shelf . It is located about 32 km off the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land in the eastern Weddell Sea and is about 72 km long. With three narrow arms it resembles a clover leaf .
The Lyddan Island was discovered and mapped on November 5, 1967 by William R. MacDonald (1925-1977) while flying over a Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1970 after Robert Henry Lyddan (1910–1990), a member of the United States Geological Survey , who had been involved in the planning and management of Antarctic mapping since the 1950s.
Web links
- Lyddan Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lyddan Island on geographic.org (English)