Stinear Island
| Stinear Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 50 ′ E | |
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Stinear Island is an island in Holme Bay on the Mawson Coast of Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the group of Flat Islands , it is 300 m north of Béchervaise Island
It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003), who worked in 1954, 1957 and 1959 at Mawson Station .
Web links
- Stinear Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stinear Island on geographic.org (English)