Roosevelt Island, Antarctica

The Roosevelt Island (English Roosevelt Iceland ) is an island in Antarctica. It is located in the Ross Ice Shelf, the southern, permanently frozen part of the Ross Sea and is completely glaciated. Your northern tip is still 16 km away from the open sea. The Roosevelt Island has an area of ​​about 7500 square kilometers (more than twice as large as Mallorca). The central ridge reaches a maximum height of 550 meters.

Their discoverer, Richard E. Byrd named it in 1934 after the then reigning U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The diary of the geologist Raymond Priestley suggest that the island already been spotted during the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under Ernest Shackleton as a land mass, but was not identified as an island.