Azimuth Island
| Azimuth Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Azimuth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 ′ S , 62 ° 44 ′ E | |
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Azimuth Iceland (of English azimuth , azimuth ' ) is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is the largest of the Azimuth Islands in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it so, because the island served participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959 as a benchmark for determining the azimuth in triangulation measurements.
Web links
- Azimuth Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Azimuth Island on geographic.org (English)