Roosevelt Island, Antarctica

Roosevelt

Satellite image of Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt

Roosevelt Island

Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 79°25′S 162°00′W / 79.417°S 162.000°W / -79.417; -162.000Coordinates: 79°25′S 162°00′W / 79.417°S 162.000°W / -79.417; -162.000
Area 7,500 km2 (2,900 sq mi)
Area rank 91st
Length 130 km (81 mi)
Width 65 km (40.4 mi)
Highest elevation 550 m (1,800 ft)
Administration
None
Demographics
Population Data not available
Additional information
Claimed by New Zealand as part of the Ross Dependency. Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about 130 km (81 mi) long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km (40 mi) wide and about 7,500 km2 (2,896 sq mi) in area, lying under the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Its central ridge rises to about 550 m (1,804 ft) above sea level, but this and all other elevations of the island are completely covered by ice, so that the island is invisible at ground level.

Examination of how the ice flows above it establishes the existence and extent of the island.[1] Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd named it in 1934 after Franklin D. Roosevelt, then President of the United States of America. Byrd was the leader of the expedition that discovered the island.[2]

Roosevelt Island lies within the boundaries of the Ross Dependency, New Zealand's Antarctic claim.

The island has become a focus of the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) research using ice coring.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Michon Scott (23 April 2007). "Something under the ice is moving". NASA's Earth Observatory. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Peter Rejcek (3 September 2010). "Roosevelt Island: U.S., Kiwi scientists team up to look at stability of ice shelf". Antarctic Sun. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  3. ↑ Talalay, Pavel G. (2016). "9: Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Drills with Bottom-Hole Circulation". Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology. Springer Geophysics. Singapore: Springer. p. 236. ISBN 9789811005602. Retrieved 2016-11-10. Roosevelt Island is a coastal ice rise [...] where intermediate-depth ice coring was carried out as part of the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) international project led by New Zealand.
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