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Sherman Island is an ice-covered island of
Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes
' * Cochran, J. & Jacobs, S. & Tinto, K. & Bell, Robin. (2014)
Bathymetric and oceanic controls on Abbot Ice Shelf thickness and stability
', The Cryosphere. 8. 877–889. 10.5194/tc-8-877-2014 * J.A. GRIGGS, J.L. BAMBER,
Antarctic ice-shelf thickness from satellite radar altimetry
', Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 203, 2011, P 485
Sherman Island
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Sherman Island
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Sherman Island area satellite image
Updated weather for Sherman Island
Sherman Island is an ice-covered island of Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
about long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island
Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third-largest island of Antarctica, after Alexander Island and Berkner Isl ...
in the middle of Peacock Sound
Peacock Sound is an ice-filled sound, long and wide, separating Thurston Island from the Eights Coast of Ellsworth Land in Antarctica. The sound is occupied by the western part of the Abbot Ice Shelf, and is therefore not navigable by ships.
...
. The feature rises above the Abbot Ice Shelf which occupies the sound.
It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by US 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 December 1946, and named by the 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 ...
for Admiral Forrest Sherman, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, when preparations were being made for U.S. Naval support during the forthcoming International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY; french: Année géophysique internationale) was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific i ...
operations.
Maps
Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
See also
*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 ...
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
* SCAR
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a ...
* Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and st ...
Further reading
* M.J. Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, V. Bowman, B. Davies, J.L. Smellie, M. Tranter, Editors,Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes
' * Cochran, J. & Jacobs, S. & Tinto, K. & Bell, Robin. (2014)
Bathymetric and oceanic controls on Abbot Ice Shelf thickness and stability
', The Cryosphere. 8. 877–889. 10.5194/tc-8-877-2014 * J.A. GRIGGS, J.L. BAMBER,
Antarctic ice-shelf thickness from satellite radar altimetry
', Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 203, 2011, P 485
External links
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USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...
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SCAR
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a ...
website
Sherman Island area satellite image
Updated weather for Sherman Island
References
Islands of Ellsworth Land {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub