Pila Island
| Pila Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 43 ′ E | |
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Pila Island is an island in Holme Bay on the Mawson Coast of Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It is located 2.5 km west of the Flat Islands .
Norwegian cartographers, who called them Pila (Norwegian for arrow ), mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia transferred this name into English in 1958 with a toponym .
Web links
- Pila Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pila Island on geographic.org (English)