Gardner Island (Antarctica)
| Gardner Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 1.2 km | |
Gardner Island (in Norway Breidneskollen for broad-tip hill ) is a 1.2 km long island off the Ingrid-Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located 3 km west of Heidemann Bay in front of the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia changed the naming they made and named the island after Lionel George Gardner (* 1924), a mechanic for diesel gensets at the nearby Davis Station in 1958.
Web links
- Gardner Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gardner Island on geographic.org (English)