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 United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An ice-covered island, about 80 mi long in a NW-SE direction and 40 mi wide, lying in the E part of the Ross Ice Shelf. The N extremity of the island is 3 mi S of the Bay of Whales. Its main topographic expression is a central ridge about 550 m above sea level. Discovered by the ByrdAE in 1934, and named by R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd for Franklin D. Roosevelt, then President of the United States.
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