Burtis Island
Burtis Island is a small island lying east of Cape Dart, Siple Island, off the coast of Marie [Byrd Land]. It was mapped by the U.S. [Geological Survey] from U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1962–65, and named by the Advisory [Committee on Antarctic Names] for William J. Burtis, an ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1965.