Tukey Island
| Tukey Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Joubin Islands , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ S , 64 ° 26 ′ W | |
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Tukey Island is an island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located near the center of the Joubin Islands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1975 after Claude C. Tukey (* 1947), kitchen orderly on the RV Hero serving the National Science Foundation on their Antarctic voyage to Palmer Station in 1968.
Web links
- Tukey Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tukey Island on geographic.org (English)