Osmar Island
| Osmar Island | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 76 ° 1 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 25 m | |
Osmar Island is the largest of a group of four islands off the Ingrid Christensen coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is located 3.5 km northwest of the Stornes peninsula .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Norwegian Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after the journalist Osmar Egmont Dorkin White (1909-1991), who was involved in a 1958 campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to the Larsemann Hills .
Web links
- Osmar Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)