Roosevelt Island (Southern Ocean) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Roosevelt Island (79°25'S 162°00'W) is an ice-covered island, about 130 km long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km wide and about 7,500 kmē in area, lying in the E part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Its central ridge rises to about 550 m above sea level.
It was named by its discoverer R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1934 for Franklin D. Roosevelt, then President of the United States.
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