Part Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 137 Northwest White Island, McMurdo Sound Lat. 78°00−S; Long. 167°20−E.

White Island, part of the McMurdo volcanic complex, is situated approximately 20 kilometres SE of the edge of the McMurdo Ice Shelf and 25 kilometres SE of Hut Point, the location of McMurdo Station (United States) and Scott Base (New Zealand) on Ross Island. The roughly triangular island is approximately 30 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide at its maximum, and rises to a maximum elevation of 762 metres in several locations. The island is predominantly ice-covered with most of the rock outcrops being in the north, and is completely surrounded by the permanent shelf ice, between 10 metres and 100 metres in thickness, of the McMurdo Ice Shelf and Ross Ice Shelf.