Tent Island
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| Waters | Erebus Bay | |
| Archipelago | Dellbridge Islands | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| Highest elevation | 137 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Tent Island (from English tent ' tent ' ) is a roughly triangular, approximately 1.6 km long and up to 137 m high island of the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It is the largest of the Dellbridge Islands and is located south of Cape Evans on Ross Island and northwest of the Erebus glacier tongue .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered them. Scott named them descriptively for their shape.
Web links
- Tent Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tent Island on geographic.org (English)