Observation Island (Antarctica)
| Observation Island | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 0 ′ S , 50 ° 25 ′ E | |
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Observation Iceland (of English observation , monitoring, surveillance ' ) is a small, irregularly-shaped island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbylands . It lies immediately to the west of the confluence of the Beaver Glacier in the eastern part of the Amundsen Bay .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) visited the island in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it so because it was a station served for geomagnetic and astronomical observations.
Web links
- Observation Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Observation Island on geographic.org (English)