Sherman Island is an ice-covered island of Antarctica about long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island in the middle of Peacock Sound. The feature rises above the Abbot Ice Shelf which occupies the sound. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by US Navy Operation HIGHJUMP in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Admiral Forrest Sherman, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, when preparations were being made for U.S. Naval support during the forthcoming International Geophysical Year operations. Maps Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016. See also Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica Further reading M.J. Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, V. Bowman, B. Davies, J.L. Smellie, M. Tranter, Editors, Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes Cochran, J. & Jacobs, S. & Tinto, K. & Bell, Robin. (2014) Bathymetric and oceanic controls on Abbot Ice Shelf thickness and stability, The Cryosphere. 8. 877–889. 10.5194/tc-8-877-2014 J.A. GRIGGS, J.L. BAMBER, Antarctic ice-shelf thickness from satellite radar altimetry, Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 203, 2011, P 485 External links Sherman Island on USGS website Sherman Island on SCAR website Sherman Island area satellite image Updated weather for Sherman Island Long term weather forecast for Sherman Island References Islands of Ellsworth Land