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Turret Island () is a small
island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
, ice-covered except for the north face. It lies partly within the seaward terminus of
Shipley Glacier Shipley Glacier () is a glacier, 25 miles (40 km) long, in the north-central Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. The glacier drains the northern slopes of Mount Adam and flows along the east wall of DuBridge Range to Pressure Bay on the north ...
, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of Flat Island, along the north coast of
Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. The rocky north end projecting from the
glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...
is suggestive of a turret. It was charted and named by the
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, led by Campbell, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13.


See also

* List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands Islands of Victoria Land Pennell Coast {{VictoriaLand-geo-stub