Canopus Island
| Canopus Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Canopus Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 '7 " S , 62 ° 58' 59" O | |
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| length | 480 m | |
| width | 380 m | |
| surface | 15 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Canopus Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the southernmost of the two largest islands in the group of Canopus Islands in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who called it Spjotøy , mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions triangulated the island in 1959 and named it after the star Canopus .
Web links
- Canopus Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Canopus Island on geographic.org (English)