Depot Island (Øygarden)
| Depot Island | ||
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| Waters | Edward VIII Bay | |
| Archipelago | Øygarden | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 56 ′ S , 57 ° 19 ′ E | |
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Depot Island is a small island about 1.5 km north of the western foothills of Shaula Island in the Øygarden archipelago off the coast of the Antarctic Kemplands .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian Nature Conservation Agency named the island after the supply depot that was set up there by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956.
Web links
- Depot Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Depot Island on geographic.org (English)