DeLaca Island

DeLaca Island

DeLaca Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°47′S 64°07′W / 64.783°S 64.117°W / -64.783; -64.117Coordinates: 64°47′S 64°07′W / 64.783°S 64.117°W / -64.783; -64.117
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

DeLaca Island is a small U-shaped island 1.5 km (0.8 nmi) west of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island. DeLaca Island is one of two main investigation areas in a United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) study of terrestrial arthropods. DeLaca Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ted E. DeLaca, a member of the University of California, Davis, California, biological team working this area, 1971-1974.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "DeLaca Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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