Sturge Island
Sturge Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies southeast of Buckle Island and northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland. The islands were discovered by British mariner John Balleny in 1839. The island was named after Thomas Sturge, one of the London merchants who had financed the expedition led by Balleny.
The island is roughly a parallelogram in shape, with long east and west coasts and shorter coasts facing northwest and southeast. It is approximately in width, and its maximum length is, between Cape Freeman in the north and Cape Smyth in the south. It is covered by ice and snow all the year around.
The island's highest point reaches or . This is the highest point in the Balleny chain.
The island forms part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand.
