Sirius Islands
| Sirius Islands | ||
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| Waters | Edward VIII Bay | |
| archipelago | Øygarden | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 57 ′ S , 57 ° 27 ′ E | |
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The Sirius Islands are a chain of islands in the northern part of the Øygarden archipelago off the coast of the Antarctic Kemplands .
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 . The Australian Nature Conservation Agency named it after the star Sirius , which served as a benchmark for surveying work in the area.
Web links
- Sirius Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sirius Islands on geographic.org (English)