Eadie Island
| Eadie Island | ||
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| Waters | Tasman Rip | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 28 ′ S , 55 ° 57 ′ W | |
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Eadie Island is a 1.5 km long island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located between Aspland Island and O'Brien Island in the eastern archipelago called Islas Piloto Pardo by Chile .
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen named the group consisting of Eadie Island, Aspland Island and O'Brien Island during his Antarctic voyage (1819-1821) in 1821 as Ostrowa Tri Brata ( German Three Brothers Islands ). The namesake of the island described here, which was previously unnamed, has been Donald Eadie (* 1883), dredging engineer and shipyard manager at Melbourne Harbor Trust in Williamstown, Australia , since 1937 in the course of the surveys carried out by the British Discovery Investigations .
Web links
- Eadie Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eadie Island on geographic.org (English)