Oom Island
| Oom Island | ||
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| Waters | Oom Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 24 ′ S , 60 ° 39 ′ E | |
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Oom Island ( Norwegian Uksøy ) is a small island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In Oom Bay it is 800 m northeast of Campbell Head .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after Karl Erik Oom (1904-1972), cartographer of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Oom Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oom Island on geographic.org (English)