Black Island in the Ross Archipelago

Ross Archipelago

Ross Archipelago is a convenient name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound. The most northerly is Beaufort Island, then comes Ross Island, the Dellbridge Islands, and Black Island and White Island...

, is immediately west of White Island

White Island (Ross Archipelago)

White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago, long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition and so named by them because of the mantle of snow which covers it....

. It was first named by the Discovery Expedition

Discovery Expedition

The British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, generally known as the Discovery Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since James Clark Ross's voyage sixty years earlier...

 (1901–04) because of its lack of snow. The island's northernmost point is named Cape Hodgson, commemorating Thomas Vere Hodgson

Thomas Vere Hodgson

Thomas Vere Hodgson was a biologist aboard the H.M.S. Discovery during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known by the nickname Muggins. He pursued his interest in marine biology initially in his spare time, but eventually found work at the Marine Biological Station in Plymouth...

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The highest point is Mt. Aurora, a prinicple radio relay point. On the minor peak of Mt. Melania is the principal earth-based ground-station for the US Antarctic Program. Antonio (Tony) Marchetti has been the austraul summer Camp Manager each of the last 15 years, at the Black Island Telecommunications Facility (BITF).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
  The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science . It was established in February 1958 to continue the international coordination of Antarctic scientific activities that had begun during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58...
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica