DeLaca Island | |
Map: | Antarctica |
Location: | Antarctica |
Archipelago: | Palmer Archipelago |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Country: | None |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
DeLaca Island is a small U-shaped island 0.8disp=flipNaNdisp=flip west of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island. DeLaca Island is one of two main investigation areas in a United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) study of terrestrial arthropods. DeLaca Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ted E. DeLaca, a member of the University of California, Davis, California, biological team working this area, 1971–1974.