Lobodon Island
| Lobodon Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 5 ′ S , 61 ° 36 ′ W | |
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Lobodon Island is an island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 5.5 km east of Wauters Point on Two Hummock Island .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1957) from December 1956 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after Crabeater ( Latin Lobodon carcinophaga ).
Web links
- Lobodon Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lobodon Island on geographic.org (English)