Shaula Island
| Shaula Island | ||
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| Waters | Edward VIII Bay | |
| Archipelago | Øygarden | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 6 km | |
| Highest elevation | 150 m | |
Shaula Island is an island about 1.5 km east of Achernar Island in the Øygarden archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Kempland .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The first landing was made in 1954 by the team around the Australian geodesist Robert George Dovers (1921-1981) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . Its members named the island after the star Shaula , which served as a fixed point for surveying work in the area.
Web links
- Shaula Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shaula Island on geographic.org (English)