Lamplugh Island () is an ice-capped island, long, lying north of

Whitmer Peninsula The Whitmer Peninsula () is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Location The Whitmer Peninsula is on the west coast of the Ross Se ...

, along the coast of

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

, Antarctica.

Discovery and naming

Lamplugh Island was first sighted by the

British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04 The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–184 ...

, led by

Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – ) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova Expedition ...

, but it was first charted as an island by the

British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 The ''Nimrod'' Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent. Its main target, among a range of ...

under

Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarcti ...

. It was named by Shackleton for George William Lamplugh, who gave assistance to the expedition.

Location

Lamplugh Island is off the coast of Victoria Land, in the Ross Sea, to the south of Geikie Inlet and the

Drygalski Ice Tongue The Drygalski Ice Tongue, Drygalski Barrier, or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island. The Drygalski Ice Tongue is stable by the standa ...

. Cape Irizar is at its north end. Prior Island lies off its south end. Clarke Glacier enters the sea past Lewandowski Point and flows past the north end of the island. Davis Glacier flows towards the south end of the island, where the Cheetham Ice Tongue covers the sea between the island and the

. Davis Glacier forms in the

Prince Albert Mountains The Prince Albert Mountains () are a major mountain group in Antarctica over long. Located in Victoria Land, they run north–south between the Priestley Glacier to the north and Ferrar Glacier to the south. They are south of the Deep Freeze ...

to the south of Mount Stephen, Sawyer Nunatak and McDaniel Nunatak, and north of Mount George Murray.

Features

Features of the island and the nearby mainland terrain include:

Cape Irizar

. A bold rocky headland that forms the north end of Lamplugh Island, off the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the

British National Antarctic Expedition The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1 ...

(BrNAE), 1901-04, under Scott. He named it for Captain Julian Irizar, of the Argentine naval vessel ''Uruguay'', who rescued the shipwrecked members of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04.

Prior Island

. An island long, lying just east of Lamplugh Island, off the coast of Victoria Land. First charted and.named by the

, under Shackleton. Probably named for George Thurland Prior, Keeper of the Dept. of Minerals, British Museum, 1909-27.

Clarke Glacier

. A glacier, long, draining east to the coast of Victoria Land immediately north of Lewandowski Point. The seaward extremity of this glacier merges with the flow of Davis Glacier and other glaciers from the south and contributes to the floating tongue of ice between Cape Reynolds and Lamplugh Island. Discovered and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09, under Shackleton.

Lewandowski Point

. A rugged, partially ice-free point on the Victoria Land coast, marking the south side of the mouth of Clarke Glacier. Mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy tricamera aerial photographs, 1957-62. Named by the United States

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for John R. Lewandowski, United States Navy, Chief Construction Electrician at McMurdo Station, 1965-66 and 1966-67.

Cheetham Ice Tongue

. A small ice tongue on the east coast of Victoria Land between Lamplugh Island and Whitmer Peninsula. It projects eastward into Ross Sea. The tongue appears to be nourished in part by Davis Glacier and partly by ice draining from Lamplugh Island and Whitmer Peninsula. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09, under Shackleton, and named by him for Alfred B. Cheetham, third officer on the Nimrod.

Davis Glacier

. A heavily crevassed glacier, long, draining the northwest slopes of Mount George Murray and flowing to the coast of Victoria Land opposite the south end of Lamplugh Island. The glacier contributes to ice that flows north along the west side of Lamplugh Island and to the Cheetham Ice Tongue. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09, under Shackleton, who named it for John King Davis, first officer and later captain of the expedition ship Nimrod.

Mount Stephen

. A mountain, high, standing east of Mount Howard in the Prince Albert Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62. Named by US-AC AN for Ronald R. Stephen, meteorologist with the South Pole Station winter party, 1966.

Sawyer Nunatak

. A small but distinctive nunatak standing southeast of Mount Stephens in the Prince Albert Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62. Named by US-ACAN for Joseph O. Sawyer, satellite geodesist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1966.

McDaniel Nunatak

. A ridgelike projection at the north side of the head of Davis Glacier, about north of Mount George Murray, in the Prince Albert Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62. Named by US-ACAN for James R. McDaniel, satellite geodesist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1966.

Mount George Murray

. A flat-topped, mainly ice-covered mountain rising between the heads of Davis Glacier and Harbord Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, which named it for George R.M. Murray of the British Museum staff director of the scientific aims of Scott's expedition.

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