Teyssier Island
| Dyer Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Jocelyn Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 54 ′ E | |
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Teyssier Island is an island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located at the southern end of the Jocelyn Islands in Holme Bay .
Aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used by Norwegian cartographers to map the island. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after Paul J. Teyssier, cook at the nearby Mawson station in 1959.
Web links
- Teyssier Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Teyssier Island on geographic.org (English)