Dyer Island (Antarctica)
| Dyer Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 '38 " S , 62 ° 52' 4.3" O | |
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| length | 200 m | |
| width | 30 m | |
| surface | 0.4 ha | |
Dyer Island is a small uninhabited and rocky island off the Mawson Coast of Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It is located 220 meters south of Lee Island and only 30 meters north of Entrance Island in Holme Bay . The island is 200 meters long in an east-west orientation and a maximum of 30 meters wide, with an area of around 0.4 ha .
Aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions were used to map them. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after Ralph Dyer, cook at Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Dyer Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dyer Island on geographic.org (English)