Lee Island
| Lee Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 52 ′ E | |
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Lee Island is an island off the Mawson coast of the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located immediately west of Teyssier Island in Holme Bay .
Aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used by Norwegian cartographers to map the island. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after Reginald Thomas Lee (1922–2012), a diesel generator set mechanic at the nearby Mawson station in 1957.
Web links
- Lee Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lee Island on geographic.org (English)