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The island rises to 869 m (975 m or 3,200 ft according to other sources) and separates Ronne Ice Shelf from the Filchner Ice Shelf . It is characterized by two domes, ''Reinwarthhöhe'' in the north (698 m), at , and ''Thyssenhöhe'' in the south (869 m), at . Berkner Island is about 150 km west of Luitpold Coast , Coats Land , the closest mainland of Eastern Antarctica . 17 km off the northwest corner of Berkner Island is Hemmen Ice Rise . Berkner Island was discovered by members of the United States- International Geophysical Year (US-IGY) party at Ellsworth Station under the leadership of Capt. Finn Ronne , United States Navy Reserve (USNR), during the 1957 - 1958 season. Berkner Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee On Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for American physicist Lloyd Berkner , engineer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ( 1928 - 1930 ). Since 1990, Berkner Island has been a jumping off point for a number of long distance polar expeditions. In the 1994/1995 field season the British Antarctic Survey , Alfred Wegener Institute and the Forschungsstelle für Physikalische Glaziologie of the University Of Münster cooperated in a project drilling ice cores on the North and South Domes of Berkner Island. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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