Barrier Island (Antarctica)
| Barrier Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
Barrier Island (English for Barrier Island ) is an 800 m long island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located at the northern end of the Vestfold Mountains immediately north of the entrance to the Tryne Fjord in the Tryne Sound .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited the island in 1957 and named it because it was an obstacle to the passage of icebergs into the Tryne Fjord.
Web links
- Barrier Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barrier Island on geographic.org (English)