Collyer Island
| Collyer Island | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Archipelago | Balaena Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 59 ′ S , 109 ° 57 ′ E | |
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Collyer Island is an island off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . In the group of Balaena Islands , it is 1.4 km west of Thompson Island .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Geoffrey Robert Collyer (* 1924) of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , flight captain and responsible for aerial photographs while exploring the Budd coast between 1946 and 1947.
Web links
- Collyer Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)