Jesson Island
| Jesson Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 23 ′ S , 76 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 55 m | |
Jesson Island is a small island in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is located immediately west of Solomon Island and south of McLeod Island in the Larsemann Hills area .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them in 1988 after Eric Edwin Jesson (* 1931), a geophysicist at Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Jesson Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)