Charlton Island (Antarctica)
| Charlton Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Frazier Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 13 ′ S , 110 ° 9 ′ E | |
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Charlton Island is an island off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is the westernmost of the Frazier Islands in Vincennes Bay .
Aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947) and Operation Windmill (1947–1948) were used to map them. The American polar explorer Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) named it after the electrical engineer Frederick E. Charlton († 2002) of the United States Navy , who was part of the 1957 occupation at Wilkes Station .
Web links
- Charlton Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Charlton Island on geographic.org (English)