Tonagh Island
| Tonagh Island | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 6 km | |
| width | 3 km | |
Tonagh Island is a steep-walled, flattened, 6 km long and 3 km wide island off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is located southwest of the mouth of the Beaver Glacier in the southern part of the Amundsen Bay .
A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) sighted them in October 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after Leslie Tonagh of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps , driver of a DUKW - Amphibious vehicle on this research trip.
Web links
- Tonagh Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tonagh Island on geographic.org (English)