Feature Name (see definition): Dorsey Island

Feature Class (see definition): Island

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3993

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 70° 22' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 071° 33' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -70.3666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -71.55

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1947

Description (see definition): Mainly ice-covered island, 12 mi long, lying in Wilkins Sound off the W coast of Alexander Island. Discovered and roughly mapped from aircraft by members of East Base of the U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41, and named after Herbert G. Dorsey, Jr., of the U.S. Weather Bureau, meteorologist at East Base who devised a method of predicting with exceptional accuracy the periods in which weather would be suitable for flying. Remapped from air photos taken by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. The position of the island and its outline were corrected from U.S. Landsat imagery of 1973-75 and 1979.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data