Roman lagoon
| Roman lagoon | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 58 ′ 20 " S , 73 ° 18 ′ 10" E | |
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The Roman Lagoon is a lagoon on Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean . It is on the tombolo that connects the Laurens Peninsula with Red Island .
It is named after the Bark Roman from New London , Connecticut , which operated seal hunting in the waters around Heard in the 1860s and 1870s and lost its tender E. R. Sawayer on the coast of the island in September 1866 .
Web links
- Roman Lagoon in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)