Oldroyd Island
| Magnetic Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 32 ' S , 77 ° 54' E | |
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Oldroyd Island is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of Princess Elisabeth Land, East Antarctica . It is located 300 m northwest of Magnetic Island across the Vestfold Mountains
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Participants in an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions campaign from 1957 to 1958 re-mapped. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Keith C. Oldroyd, a weather observer at Davis Station in 1960.
Web links
- Oldroyd Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oldroyd Island on geographic.org (English)