Delta Island is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 0.5 nmi (0.926 km; 0.575391154137721 mi) long, lying close southeast of Lambda Island

Lambda Island

Lambda Island is an island long, which lies immediately northwest of Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. This island, the largest feature in the northwest part of the island group, was first roughly charted and named Île Sourrieu by the French Antarctic Expedition under...

 and east of Alpha Island

Alpha Island

Alpha Island , also known as Isla Huidobro, is a small island lying between Epsilon Island and Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. Charted by Discovery Investigations in 1927 and named after the first letter of the Greek alphabet, in association with the names of other islands...

 in the Melchior Islands

Melchior Islands

Melchior Islands is a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay in the Palmer Archipelago. First seen but left unnamed by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873-74. Resighted and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste...

, Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

. The name, derived from the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, was probably given by DI personnel

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was surveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948.

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