Latady Island

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The Latady Island (English Latady Iceland ) is a covering of ice island in West Antarctica. It is located 72 km south of Charcot Island and west of Alexander Island, and forms the southeastern boundary of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The island is about 60 km long, 40 km wide and has an area of ​​3.300 km ². 1929 saw Sir Hubert Wilkins from the air an ice-covered structure at this point and described this, but did not recognize that it is an island, yet he charted them separately.

The Latady island was photographed from the air during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition ( RARE ) in the years 1947 and 1948 and mapped in 1960 on the basis of these photos by Derek John Searle Hatherhill from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ). The Latady island was by the UK Antarctic Place -Names Committee ( UK- APC) by William R. Latady, an air photographer and navigator of the flight of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition named.