Evans Island (Antarctica)
| Evans Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 48 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Evans Island is the southernmost island of the Flat Islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located in the eastern section of Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Further aerial photos were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946-1947) and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions between 1954 and 1959. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after Desmond John Evans (* 1931), a mechanic for diesel engines on Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Evans Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Island on geographic.org (English)