Béchervaise Island
| Béchervaise Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.2 km | |
| width | 700 m | |
| Highest elevation | 52.8 m | |
Béchervaise Iceland is the largest island of the Flat Islands in Holme Bay at the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them in 1956 after the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998), who had paid a visit to the island in November 1955 with a team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Béchervaise Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Béchervaise Island on geographic.org (English)
- Topographic map 1: 10,000