Dorsey Island
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dorsey-island-288-18681428
title:
Dorsey Island
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Dorsey Island is a mainly ice-covered island, 22 kilometres (12 nmi) long, lying in Wilkins Sound off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The highest point of the island is Mount Snell which rises to about 500 m. It was discovered and roughly mapped from aircraft by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was named after Herbert G. Dorsey, Jr., of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a meteorologist at East Base who devised a method of predicting with exceptiona
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Island near Antarctica
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsey_Island
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2023-11-02T13:21:29Z
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