Tripp Island
| Tripp Island | ||
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| Waters | Tripp Bay | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 38 ′ S , 162 ° 42 ′ E | |
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The Tripp Island is an island off the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in the southern part of Tripp Bay .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered and mapped the island. It is named after the New Zealander Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), who was helpful to the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Tripp Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tripp Island on geographic.org (English)
- Tripp Island. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 307 (English)