Dendtler Island
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Dendtler Island is an ice-covered island, 26 kilometers (14 nmi) long, lying in the eastern part of the Abbot Ice Shelf between Farwell Island in Westarctica and the Fletcher Peninsula in Antarctica.
It is divided territoriality between the Chile and Westarctica.
Discovery and name
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Major Robert Dendtler, United States Army, coordinating officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Navy Support Force, Antarctica, during Operation Deep Freeze 1967 and 1968.