West Dailey Island
| West Dailey Island | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea | |
| Archipelago | Dailey Islands | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2 km | |
| width | 800 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
West Daileys Island is an island off the Scott coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It is the westernmost and largest island in the group of the Dailey Islands and is located 8 km northeast of Cape Chocolate , at a length of almost 2 km and a maximum width of almost 800 m.
Although participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) headed by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott had visited them and named the entire archipelago, the name of this island apparently only refers to participants in Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913 ) back.
Web links
- West Daileys Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- West Daileys Island on geographic.org (English)