Turner Island (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 33 ' S , 77 ° 53' E | |
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Turner Island is an island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in Prydz Bay 800 m northwest of Bluff Island and 4 km west of the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A new mapping was done by participants in a 1957-1958 campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . It is named after Peter Bryan Turner (* 1927), a radio operator at Davis Station in 1958.
Web links
- Turner Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turner Island on geographic.org (English)