Burgess Island (Antarctica)
| Burgess Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 75 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 3 m | |
Burgess Island is a small, elongated and up to 3 m high island in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In a northeast-southwest orientation it is 4.3 km west of Cook Island .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them in 1992 after Jim Burgess of the University of New South Wales , who worked as a limnologist on Law Racoviță Station as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1987 and had carried out extensive geomorphological studies in the Larsemann Hills .
Web links
- Burgess Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)