Lucas Island
| Lucas Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 30 ′ S , 77 ° 57 ′ E | |
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Lucas Island ( Norwegian Plogsteinen , plow stone ) is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in Prydz Bay 3 km northwest of Plogøy and immediately west of the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia , however, named them in 1958 after William Charles Lucas (* 1928), diesel generator mechanic at Davis Station in 1957.
Web links
- Lucas Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lucas Island on geographic.org (English)