Dorsey Island is a mainly ice-covered island, 22 kilometres (12 nmi) long, lying in Wilkins Sound off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The highest point of the island is Mount Snell which rises to about 500 m. It was discovered and roughly mapped from aircraft by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was named after Herbert G. Dorsey, Jr., of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a meteorologist at East Base who devised a method of predicting with exceptional accuracy the periods in which weather would be suitable for flying. It was remapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. The position of the island and its outline were corrected from U.S. Landsat imagery of 1973–75 and 1979.[1]
 Location of Dorsey Island | |
  Dorsey Island Location in Antarctica | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 69°17′S 71°49′W / 69.283°S 71.817°W |
| Length | 22 km (13.7 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 500 m (1600 ft) |
| Highest point | Mount Snell |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Dorsey Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Dorsey Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
 | This Alexander Island location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |