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Umber Island
Umber Island
is a rocky
island
, 2.4
km
long, lying southwest of
Kamhi Point
and
10 km
northwest
of
Dint Island
lying within
Lazarev Bay
, off the
west side
of
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
.
The island
was mapped from
air
photos taken by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
in 1947–48, by Searle of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
in 1960, it was so named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
because on the RARE photos
the island
appears
in deep
shadow cast by the
Havre Mountains
to
the north
.