Parallactic Island
| Parallactic Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Parallactic Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 ′ S , 62 ° 46 ′ E | |
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Parallactic Island (from English parallactic , parallactic, relating to parallax ' ) is an island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the northwesternmost of the Parallactic Islands in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it so because the island was used by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1961 as a location for parallax measurements of the northern lights .
Web links
- Parallactic Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Parallactic Island on geographic.org (English)