Umber Island
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Umber Island is a rocky island
, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, lying 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Dint Island
in Lazarev Bay
, off the west side of Alexander Island
. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
(RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960, it was so named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) because on the RARE photos the island appears in deep shadow cast by the Havre Mountains
to the north.
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...
, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, lying 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Dint Island
Dint Island
Dint Island is a rocky island, 1.5 nautical miles long, lying 2 nautical miles off the west side of Alexander Island in Lazarev Bay. Probably first seen from the air by the United States Antarctic Service , 1939-41...
in Lazarev Bay
Lazarev Bay
Lazarev Bay is a rectangular bay, 15 nautical miles long and 13 nautical miles wide, between Alexander Island and Rothschild Island and bounded on the south by ice shelf joining the two islands. The north coast of Alexander Island was first seen from a great distance by the Russian expedition of...
, off the west side of Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...
. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...
(RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960, it was so named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) because on the RARE photos the island appears in deep shadow cast by the Havre Mountains
Havre Mountains
Havre Mountains are mountains forming the northwest extremity of Alexander Island, extending 20 nautical miles in an east-west direction between Cape Vostok and Russian Gap. First seen in 1821 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen and resighted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99...
to the north.