Whitney Island
| Whitney Island | ||
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| Waters | George VI Sound | |
| Archipelago | Rhyolite Islands | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 40 ′ S , 68 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Whitney Island is an island in the northern section of George VI Sound off the Rymill Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the second largest and most easterly of the Rhyolite Islands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1977 after Farrell W. Whitney (1929-2014) of the United States Navy , who worked for the VXE-6 squadron at McMurdo Station and in Christchurch , New Zealand between 1958 and 1971 .
Web links
- Whitney Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whitney Island on geographic.org (English)