Merger Island
| Merger Island | ||
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| Waters | Haydn Inlet | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 17 ′ S , 70 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Merger Island (English for fusion island ) is a 5 km long and icy island off the west coast of the Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located in the entrance to Haydn Inlet .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them descriptively in 1986. It is named after the fact that the island almost disappears into the surrounding ice masses.
Web links
- Merger Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Merger Island on geographic.org (English)