Porjadin Island
| Porjadin Island | ||
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| Waters | Davissee | |
| Archipelago | Haswell Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 ' S , 92 ° 59' E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Porjadin Island ( Russian Остров Порядина Ostrow Porjadina ) is an island off the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . In the Haswell Islands group , it is 800 m south of Haswell Island .
The team from the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered and mapped them. Soviet scientists carried out a new mapping in 1956 and named it after Jakow Porjadin, navigator of the ship Vostok in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Poryadin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poryadin Island on geographic.org (English)