Merritt Island (Antarctica)
| Merrit Island | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 28 ′ S , 107 ° 12 ′ E | |
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Merritt Island is a small rocky island off the Knox coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 21 km west-northwest of Cape Nutt .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped them in 1955 using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island in 1963 after Everett LaVerne Merritt, photogrammetrist at the Hydrographic Office of the United States Navy , who was involved in Operation Windmill (1947-1948) on the establishment of astronomical observation stations along the coast of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and was involved on the Knox and Budd coasts .
Web links
- Merritt Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Merritt Island on geographic.org (English)