Hudson Island
| Hudson Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Davis Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 39 ′ S , 108 ° 26 ′ E | |
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Hudson Island is an island off the Knox coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is the largest of the Davis Islands in the western section of Vincennes Bay .
Aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used by the US cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) for an initial mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1960 after Ray Hudson, head of the helicopter team in the 1959-1960 campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , led by the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law , which visited the island on February 19, 1960 was first visited.
Web links
- Hudson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hudson Island on geographic.org (English)