Entrance Island (Antarctica)
| Entrance Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 '43 " S , 62 ° 52' 15" O | |
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| length | 420 m | |
| width | 170 m | |
| surface | 6 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Entrance Iceland (of English entrance , entrance, driveway ' ) is an uninhabited rocky island about 220 meters before the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands , at the level of Mawson Station . It is located immediately north of the entrance to Horseshoe Harbor in Holme Bay . Only 30 meters north of Entrance Island is the smaller Dyer Island . Entrance Island is 420 meters long in an east-west orientation and a maximum of 170 meters wide, and has an approximately rectangular floor plan. The area measures around six hectares .
Aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used by Norwegian cartographers to map the island. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after their geographic location.
Web links
- Entrance Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Entrance Island on geographic.org (English)