Slab Island
| Slab Island | ||
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| Waters | Wilkins Ice Shelf | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 41 ′ S , 72 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Slab Island (from English slab , tile, stone slab ' ) is a small island in the Wilkins Ice Shelf west of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located in front of the eastern end of the Wagner-Piedmont glacier on Rothschild Island .
British cartographers mapped them based on surveys of the British Antarctic Survey from 1970 and 1971, Landsat recordings in January 1974. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it 1980 descriptively. It is named after granitic rocky outcrops with a leaf-like surface structure, which seem to be joined together.
Web links
- Slab Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)