Mukluk Island
| Mukluk Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Archipelago | Donskiye Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 37 ′ S , 77 ° 52 ′ E | |
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Mukluk Island is a small, boot-shaped island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It belongs to the Donskiye Islands off the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains and is the largest island west of Redfern Island .
Australian scientists named them after the Inuktitut language for Eskimo boots .
Web links
- Mukluk Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Mukluk Island in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)