Giganteus Island
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 30 ′ E | |
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Giganteus Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located just north of the Rookery Islands on the west side of Holme Bay .
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 named them after the giant petrel ( Macronectes giganteus ), to whose breeding grounds the island belongs. This was discovered by scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions during a visit to the island in December 1958.
Web links
- Giganteus Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Giganteus Island on geographic.org (English)