Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Roosevelt Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Roosevelt Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An ice-covered island, about 90 miles long in a north-south direction and about 40 miles wide, lying in the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf, with its northern extremity about 3 miles south of the Bay of Whales. The highest point is 377m high. Discovered in 1934 by the Byrd AE, 1933-35, and named by Byrd for Franklin D Roosevelt, then President of the United States.
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