| 词条 | Wright Island |
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| name = Wright Island | image_name = | image_caption = | map = Antarctica | map_caption = Location in Antarctica | nickname = | location = Antarctica | coordinates = {{Coord|74|2|S|116|50|W|display=inline,title}} | archipelago = | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = | length_km = 65 | width_km = | highest_mount = | elevation_m = | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | country = None | treaty_system = Antarctic Treaty System }}Wright Island is an ice-covered island {{convert|35|nmi|km|0|disp=flip|abbr=on}} long, lying at the north edge of Getz Ice Shelf about midway between Carney Island and Martin Peninsula, on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, in over-all command of the U.S. Navy's Deep Freeze operations during the IGY, 1957-58. Is now claimed by Spain See also
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1 : Islands of Marie Byrd Land |
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