Farmer Island - Revision history

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	==Noble title==		==Noble title==
	As part of the [[20th Anniversary Honors and Appointments]] celebrating [[Westarctica]]'s 20 years of sovereignty, the [[Duke of the Bear Peninsula]] was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica\|peerage title]] Duke of Farmer.		As part of the [[20th Anniversary Honors and Appointments]] celebrating [[Westarctica]]'s 20 years of sovereignty, the [[Duke of the Bear Peninsula]] was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica\|peerage title]] Duke of Farmer. The Duke is a third cousin, twice removed from Floyd Farmer, for whom the island is named.

	[[Category: Islands]]		[[Category: Islands]]

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	==Discovery and name==		==Discovery and name==
	The island was first roughly mapped by the U.S. [[Antarctic]] Service during the years 1939-41. Farmer Island was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in honor of Floyd L. Farmer, [[U.S. Navy]], who served as senior shipfitter on the [[USS Glacier\|USS ''Glacier'']] in the [[Ross Sea]] during the 1961-62 research season.		The island was first roughly mapped by the U.S. [[Antarctic]] Service during the years 1939-41. Farmer Island was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in honor of Floyd L. Farmer, [[U.S. Navy]], who served as senior shipfitter on the [[USS Glacier\|USS ''Glacier'']] in the [[Ross Sea]] during the 1961-62 research season.

			==Noble title==
			As part of the [[20th Anniversary Honors and Appointments]] celebrating [[Westarctica]]'s 20 years of sovereignty, the [[Duke of the Bear Peninsula]] was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica\|peerage title]] Duke of Farmer.

	[[Category: Islands]]		[[Category: Islands]]

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[[File:Barony of Moore.jpg|thumb|350px|Map showing the location of Farmer Island]]
'''Farmer Island''' (76°38'S 147°04'W) is an [[ice]]-covered island 14 miles long, lying 6 miles north of [[Radford Island]] and 5 nautical miles east of [[Morris Island]] in the [[Marshall Archipelago]] along the coast of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
The island was first roughly mapped by the U.S. [[Antarctic]] Service during the years 1939-41. Farmer Island was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in honor of Floyd L. Farmer, [[U.S. Navy]], who served as senior shipfitter on the [[USS Glacier|USS ''Glacier'']] in the [[Ross Sea]] during the 1961-62 research season.

[[Category: Islands]]