Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Merger Island

(Wilkins Ice Shelf)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 70° 16' 59" S 70° W
ice-covered except for two small rock outcrops and rising to 275m in the entrance of Haydn Inlet, W Alexander Island, E of Dorsey Island, following map compilation by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959 from air photographs taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947, was named descriptively, the island merging with the surrounding Wilkins Ice Shelf.