Fraser Island (Antarctica)
| Fraser Island | ||
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| Waters | Wylie Bay | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 ′ S , 64 ° 8 ′ W | |
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Fraser Island is a small island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located northeast of Halfway Island in Wylie Bay in the southwest of Anvers Island .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1998 after the ornithologist William R. Fraser of Montana State University , who had carried out studies on sea birds on the Antarctic Peninsula for over 20 years .
Web links
- Fraser Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fraser Island on geographic.org (English)