Lamplugh Island is an ice-capped

Ice cap

An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area . Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet....

 island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, lying 4 nautical miles (7 km) north of Whitmer Peninsula

Whitmer Peninsula

Whitmer Peninsula is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about 7 nautical miles long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-62. Named by Advisory...

, along the coast of Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. This feature was first sighted by the Discovery expedition

Discovery Expedition

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

 led by Scott, 1901–04, but it was first charted as an island by the British Antarctic Expedition under Shackleton, 1907-09. Named by Shackleton for G.W. Lamplugh, who gave assistance to the expedition.