Barratt Island
| Barratt Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 33 ′ S , 77 ° 52 ′ E | |
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Barrat Island is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located on the other side of the Vestfold Mountains around 1.5 km west of Bluff Island .
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 after Noel R. Barratt, a weather observer at Davis Station in 1960.
Web links
- Barratt Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barratt Island on geographic.org (English)