Wright Island (Antarctica)
| Wright Island | ||
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| Waters | Getz Ice Shelf in the Amundsen Sea ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 2 ′ S , 116 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| length | 56 km | |
Wright Island is a 56 km long island off the Bakutis coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It is located on the northern edge of the Getz Ice Shelf , halfway between Carney Island and the Martin Peninsula .
Your position was determined from aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) in January 1947 . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them 1967 after Admiral Jerauld Wright (1898-1995), commander of the Atlantic Fleet and commander in chief of the operations of the United States Navy in Operation Deep Freeze during the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958).
Web links
- Wright Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Island on geographic.org (English)