Achernar Island
| Achernar Island | ||
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| Waters | Edward VIII Bay | |
| Archipelago | Øygarden | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.4 km | |
Achernar Island is an island about 1.5 km west of Shaula Island in the Øygarden archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The first landing was made in 1954 by the team around the Australian geodesist Robert George Dovers (1921-1981) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . After the island initially had the Norwegian name Utøy (German: "outer island"), it was named in 1958 by the Australian Nature Conservation Agency after the star Achernar , which served as a benchmark for surveying work in the area around the island.
Web links
- Archernar Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Archernar Island on geographic.org (English)