Dixson Island
| Dixson Island | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 8 ′ S , 146 ° 43 ′ E | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| width | 8 kilometers | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Dixson Island is a 16 km long, 8 km wide and up to 335 m high island in the D'Urville Sea off the East Antarctic George V coast . It is on the west side of the mouth of the Ninnis Glacier .
They were discovered by participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after the Australian tobacco producer and philanthropist Hugh Dixson (1841-1926), a sponsor of his research trip .
Web links
- Dixson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dixson Island on geographic.org (English)