Colorful Iceland
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 9 ′ S , 50 ° 57 ′ E | |
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Bunt Island is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located immediately east of Bow Island at the head of Amundsen Bay .
Participants of an air-assisted team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions sighted the island in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it on November 24, 1961 after John Stewart Bunt (* 1927), a biologist at Mawson Station in the year 1956.
Web links
- Colorful Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bunt Island on geographic.org (English)