Dodd Island
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 42 ′ S , 75 ° 38 ′ E | |
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Dodd Island is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is located 16 km south of the Søstrene archipelago in the middle of the Publications Ice Shelf in Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions re-mapped. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the island after David M. Dodd, a weather observer at Davis Station in the Antarctic winter of 1963.
Web links
- Dodd Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dodd Island on geographic.org (English)