McLeod Island
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 76 ° 8 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 62 m | |
McLeod Island is a large island in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is located 2 km north of the Stornes peninsula and immediately west of the Larsemann Hills .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 and named it as Kollen ( Norwegian for hill ). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1988 after Ian Roderick McLeod (* 1931), who led ANARE teams in 1969 and 1970 to geological exploration of the Prince Charles Mountains.
Web links
- McLeod Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)