Beaumont Island
| Beaumont Island | ||
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| Waters | Neny Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 11 '53.9 " S , 66 ° 56' 37.6" W | |
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| length | 130 m | |
| width | 110 m | |
| surface | 1 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Beaumont Iceland is a flat rock island before Fallières coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Neny Bay it is 700 m away from the confluence of the Centurion Glacier .
The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill in 1936. Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) made a rough survey. This was refined in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named it after the Port of Beaumont . This ship of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) wintered in 1947 in the nearby Back Bay .
Web links
- Beaumont Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beaumont Island on geographic.org (English)