Chappel Island

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Chappel Island
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Chappel Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location Vincennes Bay
Coordinates 66°11′S110°25′E / 66.183°S 110.417°E / -66.183; 110.417 Coordinates: 66°11′S110°25′E / 66.183°S 110.417°E / -66.183; 110.417
Archipelago Donovan Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Chappel Island is the largest of the Donovan Islands, lying about 9.3 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Clark Peninsula in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. The island has a number of large Adélie penguin rookeries. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Chief Warrant Officer R.L. Chappel, United States Marine Corps, motion picture officer on Operation Highjump photographic flights in this area and other coastal areas between 14 and 164 east longitude. [1]

Donovan Islands

The Donovan Islands are a chain of about 8 islands lying well offshore, about 9 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Clark Peninsula in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, they were photographed from the air by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in January 1956, and were named after J. Donovan, Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and leader of a number of relief expeditions to Heard Island and Macquarie Island.

Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, about 3 km (2 mi) long and wide, lying 5 km north-east of Australia's Casey Station at the north side of Newcomb Bay on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.

Vincennes Bay bay of the Southern Ocean on the coast of Wilkes Land, Antarctica

Vincennes Bay is a large V-shaped bay, 105 km (65 mi) wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt and Cape Folger in Antarctica, marked by several large, steep glaciers near its head, lying along Knox and Budd Coasts. It was photographed from the air by US Navy Operation Highjump in 1946-47. The bay was entered in January 1948 by US Navy Operation Windmill icebreakers Burton Island and stations in the Windmill Islands in the NE portion of the bay. Named by the US-ACAN for the sloop of war USS Vincennes, flagship of the USEE under Wilkes, from which a series of coastal landfalls along Wilkes Land were discovered and plotted during January–February 1840. Wilkes' chart suggests a possible coastal recession corresponding closely with the longitudinal limits for Vincennes Bay, although pack ice conditions prevented close reconnaissance by the USEE of the coast in this immediate area.

See also

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research organization

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Maher Island

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Grinnell Island

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Marck Glacier glacier in Antarctica

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Lauff Island

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Levko Glacier glacier in Antarctica

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References

  1. "Chappel Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2011-11-03.

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