Crohn Island
| Crohn Island | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay , Cosmonaut Lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 7 ′ S , 50 ° 52 ′ E | |
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Crohn Island is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located 800 m east of Beaver Island at the head of Amundsen Bay .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions sighted and named the island in 1956. The name giver is the leader of this team, the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015).
Web links
- Crohn Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crohn Island on geographic.org (English)