Safety Island
| Safety Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 31 ′ S , 63 ° 54 ′ E | |
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Safety Iceland (of English safety , security, safety ' ) is a small island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located 800 m northwest of Landmark Point and 5 km east of Cape Daly .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1947 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian cartographer Robert George Dovers (1921–1981) visited them in 1954 with a team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The island owes its name to the fact that it served as the closest safe camp in the vicinity of the Scullin Monolith on this research trip .
Web links
- Safety Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Safety Island on geographic.org (English)