Wright Island

Wright Island

Wright Island (coord|74|2|S|116|50|W|) is an ice-covered island 35 miles (60 km) 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. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (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

* List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

External links

* [http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=133868 Wright Island - SCAR Gazetteer Ref. No 16234] - Australian Antarctic Data Centre


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