Dorsey Island [SEP] continent
Dorsey Island
Dorsey Island is a mainly ice-covered island, long, lying in Wilkins Sound off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The highest point of the island is Mount Snell which rises to about 500 m. It was discovered and roughly mapped from aircraft by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was named after Herbert G. Dorsey, Jr., of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a meteorologist at East Base who devised a method of predicting with exceptional accuracy the periods in which
L. Halleland – 14 Jun 68 to 30 Sep 1969
- CDR Richard Schulte – 30 Sep 19 to 15 Jul 1970 [Helped start Top Gun]
- CDR Billy D. Franklin - 15 July 70 to 28 May 1971
- CDR Donald B. Pringle - 15 May 71 to 20 Dec 1971
- CDR James F. Dorsey, Jr. - 20 Dec 71 to 22 Feb 1972
- CDR Russell E. Davis - 22 Feb 72 to 31 Aug 1973
- CDR Alvin S. Newman - 31 Aug 73 to 16 Dec