Petersen Island
| Petersen Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Jocelyn Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 54 ′ E | |
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Petersen Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is the largest and northernmost of the Jocelyn Islands in Holme Bay .
Aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used by Norwegian cartographers to map the island. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after the Danish captain Hans Christian Petersen, skipper of the Kista Dan (1952–1958 and 1957–1958) and the Thala Dan (1958–1961) in campaigns of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Petersen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Petersen Island on geographic.org (English)