Byrd Head
| Byrd Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 27 ′ S , 61 ° 1 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Mawson Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Waters 2 | Howard Bay | |
The Byrd Head is a striking and rocky headland on the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located 1.5 km southeast of the Colbeck Archipelago and immediately west of Howard Bay .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered this formation in February 1931. Mawson named the headland after the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957).
Web links
- Byrd Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Byrd Head on geographic.org (English)