David Island
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". David Island (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is an ice-covered island, Script error: No such module "convert". long and Script error: No such module "convert". wide, marked by rock exposures along its north and east sides, lying off Davis Peninsula in the Shackleton Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) under Douglas Mawson. Mawson named the island for Edgeworth David, a member of the AAE Advisory Committee.