Vollmer Island
| Vollmer Island | ||
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| Waters | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
| Archipelago | Marshall Archipelago ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 44 ′ S , 150 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 14 km | |
| surface | 220 km² | |
The Vollmer Island (or Vollmer Iceland ) is a 20 km long, 14 km wide and ice-covered island before Saunders Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It is located on the northern edge of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and about 11 km northwest of Cronenwett Island in the Marshall Archipelago .
It was probably discovered and roughly mapped during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Marine Lieutenant TH Vollmer, engineer on the icebreaker USS Glacier off the coast of Marie Byrd Land from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Vollmer Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vollmer Island on geographic.org (English)