Heckmann Island
| Heckmann Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Archipelago | Thorfinnøyane in the Colbeck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 20 ′ S , 61 ° 3 ′ E | |
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Heckmann Iceland is the largest island of Thorfinnøyane before Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located 11 km north of Byrd Head in the eastern part of this group of islands belonging to the Colbeck Archipelago .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after B. Heckmann, first officer on board the research vessel Nella Dan in a 1965 campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Heckmann Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heckmann Island on geographic.org (English)