Pinn Island
| Pinn Island | ||
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| Waters | Casey Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 34 ′ S , 47 ° 55 ′ E | |
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Pinn Island is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is just off the northwest end of McKinnon Island .
Aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions were used to map them. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after John David Pinn (* 1934), a geophysicist at Mawson Station in 1957.
Web links
- Pinn Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pinn Island on geographic.org (English)