Cheesman Island
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 44 ′ S , 75 ° 11 ′ W | |
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Cheesman Island is a small and rocky island off the north coast of Charcot Island in Antarctica . It is located 1.5 km north of Mount Martine .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered and photographed them during an overflight on December 29, 1929. The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) were. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island in 1950 after Silas Alward Cheesman (1900-1958), the Canadian pilot on Wilkins' flight.
Web links
- Cheesman Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cheesman Island on geographic.org (English)