Dewart Island
| Charlton Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Frazier Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 13 ′ S , 110 ° 10 ′ E | |
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Dewart Island is an island off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is the central 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 researcher Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) named it after the seismologist Gilbert Dewart (* 1932), who belonged to the occupation of the Wilkes station in 1957 .
Web links
- Dewart Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dewart Island on geographic.org (English)