Henderson Island (Antarctica)
| Henderson Island | ||
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| Waters | Shackleton Ice Shelf , Lake Mawson , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 97 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| length | 15 km | |
| Highest elevation | 240 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Henderson Island is an icy, 15 km long and up to 240 m high island off the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . It is located 14 km southeast of Masson Island in the middle of the Shackleton Ice Shelf .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in February 1912. Mawson named them after the Australian historian George Cockburn Henderson (1870-1944) from the University of Adelaide , a member of the advisory committee of the research trip .
Web links
- Henderson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Henderson Island on geographic.org (English)