Niznik Island
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| Waters | George VI Sound | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 47 ′ S , 68 ° 31 ′ W | |
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The Niznik Island is an island off the Rymill coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northern section of George VI Sound , it lies opposite the mouth of the Eureka Glacier and south-southeast of the Rhyolite Islands .
Participants of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) discovered them. The US polar explorer Finn Ronne , head of the expedition, named the island after Theodore Thaddeus Niznik (1907–1963), a doctor from Baltimore and supporter of the expedition.
Web links
- Niznik Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Niznik Island on geographic.org (English)