Stevenson Island
| Stevenson Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Archipelago | Colbeck Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 61 ° 11 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 120 m | |
Stevenson Island is a small and up to 120 m high island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson-Land . It is located 3 km northeast of Cape Simpson on the east side of the Colbeck Archipelago .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in February 1931. Mawson named them after Captain John B. Stevenson of the Royal Navy , who served from 1916 to 1917 with the Australian Committee for the use of the research vessel Aurora .
Web links
- Stevenson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stevenson Island on geographic.org (English)