Wright Island is an ice-covered island long, lying at the north edge of
Getz Ice Shelf about midway between
Carney Island and
Martin Peninsula, on the
Bakutis Coast,
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...
. Delineated from air photos taken by
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
in January 1947. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) after Admiral
Jerauld Wright,
U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief,
Atlantic Fleet, in over-all command of the
U.S. Navy's Deep Freeze operations during the IGY, 1957–58.
See also
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
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List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
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SCAR
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
External links
Wright Island - SCAR Gazetteer Ref. No 16234- Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Islands of Marie Byrd Land
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