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Merger Island

Merger Island

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Merger Island is an ice-covered island 6 kilometres (3 nmi) long at the entrance of Haydn Inlet, lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48 by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. The name given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is descriptive, the island being almost submerged in the surrounding Wilkins Ice Shelf.[1]

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    "Merger Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

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