Macklin Island
| Macklin Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Robinson group | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 29 ′ S , 63 ° 39 ′ E | |
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Macklin Island is a small island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises up to 30 m above sea level and is 5 km northwest of Cape Daly in the eastern section of the Robinson group .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1947 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the island after Eric Leslie Macklin (1925-1997), a radio operator on Mawson Station in 1955 and 1959.
Web links
- Macklin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Macklin Island on geographic.org (English)