  berkner island or berkner ice rise or hubley island is an ice rise, where bedrock below sea level makes the ice dome upward. if the ice cap melted, it would be under water.http://earthshots.usgs.gov/filchner/filchnertext berkner "island" is high and completely ice-covered and about  long and  wide, with an area of . berkner is surrounded by the filchner-ronne ice shelf. the northernmost point of the berkner is about  from the open sea. it lies in the overlapping portion of the argentine and the british claims. the island rises to  ( according to other sources) and separates ronne ice shelf from the filchner ice shelf. it is characterized by two domes, reinwarthhÃ¶he in the north (), at , and thyssenhÃ¶he in the south (), at . it is indented by three bays on the eastern side, which are from north to south: mccarthy inlet, roberts inlet, and spilhouse inlet. gould bay is on the north coast. berkner island is about  west of luitpold coast, coats land, the closest mainland of eastern antarctica.  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 (1928â1930).http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=107766 since 1990, berkner island has been a jumping off point for a number of long distance polar expeditions. ben saunders has planned an unsupported journey from the island to the south pole and back.http://www.areteclub.
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