Fulmar Island
| Fulmar Island | ||
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| Waters | Davissee | |
| Archipelago | Haswell Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 ' S , 93 ° 1' E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Fulmar Island is an island off the coast of Queen Marie Land . In the group of Haswell Islands , it is immediately south of Sykow Island .
She was discovered by the team at the West Base on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . However, they erroneously mapped it together with the Sykow Island as a single island and named it after the silver petrel ( Fulmarus glacialoides ) that breeds here . Soviet scientists cleared up this mistake in 1956 and retained the name for the island described here.
Web links
- Fulmar Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fulmar Island on geographic.org (English)