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Coordinates: 79°25′S 162°00′W / 79.417°S 162.000°W / -79.417; -162.000
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Examination of how the ice flows above it establishes the existence and extent of the island.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/IceMoving/ |title= Something under the ice is moving |author= Michon Scott |publisher= NASA's Earth Observatory |date= 23 April 2007 |accessdate= 23 September 2010}}</ref>
Examination of how the ice flows above it establishes the existence and extent of the island.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/IceMoving/ |title= Something under the ice is moving |author= Michon Scott |publisher= NASA's Earth Observatory |date= 23 April 2007 |accessdate= 23 September 2010}}</ref>
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}}</ref> Rear Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] named it in 1934 after US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Byrd was the [[leader]] of the expedition that discovered the island.<ref>{{Cite news|url= http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2254 |title= Roosevelt Island: U.S., Kiwi scientists team up to look at stability of ice shelf |newspaper= Antarctic Sun |author= Peter Rejcek |date= 3 September 2010 |accessdate= 23 September 2010}}</ref>
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Roosevelt Island lies within the boundaries of the [[Ross Dependency]], [[New Zealand]]'s Antarctic claim.
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Rear Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] named it in 1934 after US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Byrd was the [[leader]] of the expedition that discovered the island.<ref>{{Cite news|url= http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2254 |title= Roosevelt Island: U.S., Kiwi scientists team up to look at stability of ice shelf |newspaper= Antarctic Sun |author= Peter Rejcek |date= 3 September 2010 |accessdate= 23 September 2010}}</ref> Roosevelt Island lies within the boundaries of the [[Ross Dependency]], [[New Zealand]]'s Antarctic claim.



==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 20:17, 14 December 2020

For other uses, see Roosevelt Island (disambiguation).

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Satellite image of Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt is located in Antarctica
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Roosevelt Island
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates79°25′S 162°00′W / 79.417°S 162.000°W / -79.417; -162.000
Area7,500 km2 (2,900 sq mi)
Area rank91st
Length130 km (81 mi)
Width65 km (40.4 mi)
Highest elevation550 m (1800 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationData not available
Additional information
Claimed by New Zealand as part of the Ross Dependency.

Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about 130 km (81 mi) long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km (40 mi) wide and about 7,500 km2 (2,896 sq mi) in area, lying under the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Its central ridge rises to about 550 m (1,804 ft) above sea level, but this and all other elevations of the island are completely covered by ice, so that the island is invisible at ground level.

Examination of how the ice flows above it establishes the existence and extent of the island.[1] [2] Radar surveying carried out between 1995 and 2013 showed that the Raymond Effect was operating beneath the ice divide. [2][3] The island has become a focus of the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) research [4] using ice coring.[5]

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd named it in 1934 after US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Byrd was the leader of the expedition that discovered the island.[6] Roosevelt Island lies within the boundaries of the Ross Dependency, New Zealand's Antarctic claim.


See also

References

  1. ^ Michon Scott (23 April 2007). "Something under the ice is moving". NASA's Earth Observatory. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  2. ^ a b Conway, H.; et al. (1999). "Past and Future Grounding-Line Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet". Science. 286: 280–283. doi:10.1126/science.286.5438.280.
  3. ^ Kingslake, J.; Hindmarsh, R.C.A; Aðalgeirsdóttir, G.; et al. (2014). "Full-depth englacial vertical ice-sheet velocities measured using phase-sensitive radar". Journal of Geophysical Research. 119. doi:10.1029/2014JF003275.
  4. ^ Bertler, N.A.N.; Conway, H.; Dahl-Jensen, D.; Emanuelsson, D.B.; Winstrup, M.; et al. (2018). "The Ross Sea Dipole - Temperature, Snow Accumulation and Sea Ice Variability in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica, over the Past 2,700 Years". Climate of the Past. 14 (2): 193–214. doi:10.5194/cp-14-193-2018.
  5. ^ Talalay, Pavel G. (2016). "9: Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Drills with Bottom-Hole Circulation". Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology. Springer Geophysics. Singapore: Springer. p. 236. ISBN 9789811005602. Retrieved 10 November 2016. Roosevelt Island is a coastal ice rise [...] where intermediate-depth ice coring was carried out as part of the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) international project led by New Zealand.
  6. ^ Peter Rejcek (3 September 2010). "Roosevelt Island: U.S., Kiwi scientists team up to look at stability of ice shelf". Antarctic Sun. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
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