White Island (Ross Archipelago)

[1] Some 142 km2 of shelf ice adjoining the north-west coast of the island has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 137) because it supports an isolated, small breeding population of Weddell seals.

A rock bluff rising to 400 metres (1,300 ft) high, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast of Isolation Point.

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN; 2005) after Randall W. Davis, Department of Marine Biology, Texas A'&'M University, Galveston, TX, who studied the Weddell seal in McMurdo Sound sea ice areas, 1977-2003, including winter season research at White Island with Michael A. Castellini (Castellini Bluff.

A conspicuous rock bluff, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Marshall Cirque on the west side of White Island, Ross Archipelago.

Named by US-ACAN (1999) after Ray R. Dibble, Department of Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, who investigated volcanic eruptions and the seismicity of nearby Mount Erebus in five seasons, 1980-81 through 1984-85.

Named by the NZGSAE (1958-59) for V. Hayward, a Canadian member of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17), who lost his life in a blizzard on May 8, 1916 when the sea ice in McMurdo Sound went out.

Named by US-ACAN (1999) after Dianne L. Marshall, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who investigated the volcanic activity and seismicity of nearby Mount Erebus in 1981-82 and 1982-83.

Named by US-ACAN (1999) after Juergen Kienle, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, a team leader for the investigation of volcanic activity and seismicity at nearby Mount Erebus in six seasons, 1980-81 through 1985-86.

A bench about 45 metres (148 ft) high on the west side of White Island, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) from the north end.

The bench comprises the northwest-most moraine-covered volcanic outcrops on the island, upon which occur tuffaceous conglomerate block and shell fragments of the Scallop Hill Formation.

Named by US-ACAN (1999) after Ian G. Speden, New Zealand Geological Survey, DSIR, who, accompanied by A.C. Beck, collected fossiliferous deposits here, December 22, 1958.