Roosevelt Island, Antarctica
- Roosevelt Island, Antarctica
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Roosevelt Island (coord|79|25|S|162|00|W|) is an ice-covered island, about 130 km long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km wide and about 7,500 km2 in area, lying in the E part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Its central ridge rises to about 550 m above sea level.
It was named by its discoverer R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1934 for Franklin D. Roosevelt, then President of the United States.
Roosevelt Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, New Zealand's claim to Antarctica.
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