Steele Island
| Steele Island | |
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| Location: | 70°58’48"S, 60°42’37"W |
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Steele Island is a snow-clad island, or more properly an ice rise, twelve miles long from east to west and ten miles wide, on the Larsen Ice Front, rising to some 1,150 feet above the Larsen Ice Shelf. The island lies off the Black Coast, which stretches along part of the east coast of Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island lies twelve miles south-east of Cape Sharbonneau, the headland of the Imshaug Peninsula on the Black Coast.
The steeply-sloping sides of the island are crevassed, but no rock is exposed. It was surveyed by members of East Base of the US Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Clarence E. Steele, tractor driver for the East Base.
The island was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Altimetric data for the feature were obtained on a radio echo-sounding flight by the British Antarctic Survey in February 1975.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Steele Island
