Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Smyley Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Smyley 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, 38 mi long and from 8 to 21 mi wide, lying at the S side of Ronne Entrance and just NE of Rydberg Peninsula, Ellsworth Land. The feature is almost wholly surrounded by an ice shelf, which gives an erroneous impression that the island is joined to Ellsworth Land. This larger composite feature was observed from aircraft by members of the USAS, 1939-41, who gave the name "Cape Smyley" to the projecting ice shelf at the NW extremity. The US-ACAN has withdrawn that name on the basis of the 1968 USGS map of the area and has approved the name Smyley Island for the island described. Named after Capt. William H. Smyley, American master of the sealing vessel Ohio during 1841-42. Capt. Smyley, in Feb. 1842, recovered the self-recording thermometer left at Pendulum Cove, Deception Island, by Capt. Henry Foster of the be 0.5F.
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