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Latady Island

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Location
  
Width
  
18.52 km (11.508 mi)

Area
  
3,300 km²

Length
  
64.82 km (40.277 mi)

Population
  
Uninhabited

Latady Island

Latady Island is a low ice-covered island off Antarctica, about 60 kilometres (35 nmi) long and more than 20 kilometres (10 nmi) wide, lying 80 kilometres (45 nmi) south of Charcot Island and west of Alexander Island. An ice-covered feature in this approximate position was seen from the air and described by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1929, but not recognized as an island or separately mapped. Latady Island was first photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–1948, and mapped from these photos by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for William R. Latady, an aerial photographer and navigator on the RARE flight.

Map of Rothschild, Antarctica

References

Latady Island Wikipedia


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