Beaver Island (Antarctica)
| Beaver Island | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 3 km | |
| width | 1.5 km | |
Beaver Island is a 3 km long and 1.5 km wide island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located directly on the southern flank of the confluence of the Beaver Glacier in the eastern part of the Amundsen Bay .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) visited the island in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the nearby Beaver Glacier , whose namesake are aircraft of the type DHC-2 Beaver , which served the Australian expedition series for coastal exploration.
Web links
- Beaver Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beaver Island on geographic.org (English)