Oldham Island
| Oldham Island | ||
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| Waters | Utstikkar Bay | |
| Archipelago | Stanton group | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 ′ S , 61 ° 42 ′ E | |
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Oldham Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In Utstikkar Bay , it is located in the eastern part of the Stanton Group .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it Andøya (Norwegian for Duck Island ), mapped it using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia, on the other hand, named them after Wilfrid Hugh Oldham (* 1924), biologist and geomagnetist at Mawson Station in 1955.
Web links
- Oldham Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oldham Island on geographic.org (English)