East Budd Island
| East Budd Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 51 ′ E | |
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East Budd Island is one of two large islands (the other is West Budd Island ) off the Mawson Coast of Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In Holme Bay , it is at the northern end of the Flat Islands group .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They named them as Flatøynålane (Norwegian for flat island needles ). In contrast, the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1960 after Grahame Murray Budd (* 1930), a doctor on Mawson's ward in 1959.
Web links
- East Budd Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- East Budd Island on geographic.org (English)