Bull Island (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Archipelago | Possession Islands | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 59 ′ S , 171 ° 6 ′ E | |
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Bull Island is a rocky island in the Ross Sea off the Borchgrevink coast of East Antarctica, Victoria . It is located between Kemp Rock and Heftye Island in the Possession Islands group southeast of the Adare Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1969 after the Norwegian Henryk Bull (1844-1930), who this area in 1895 with the Ship Antarctic explored under Captain Leonard Christensen (1857-1911) and on January 24 at Cape Adare was one of the supposedly first people to set foot on the Antarctic continent .
Web links
- Bull Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bull Island on geographic.org (English)