Holman Dome
| Holman Dome | ||
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| location | David Island , Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 98 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Holman Dome is a dome-shaped nunatak on David Island off the coast of Queen Marie Land in East Antarctica . It rises 3 km southwest of Watson Bluff on the east side of the island.
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named him after William Arthur Holman (1871-1934), then Prime Minister of New South Wales .
Web links
- Holman Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holman Dome on geographic.org (English)