Van Hulssen Islands
| Van Hulssen Islands | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ' S , 62 ° 43' E | |
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| Number of islands | 10 | |
| Main island | Van Hulssen Island | |
The Van Hulssen Islands are a group of around ten islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are 2.5 km north of Pila Island .
Norwegian cartographers, who called them Ytterskjera (Norwegian for Outer Archipelago ), mapped them using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions re- mapped it between 1954 and 1962. They named it after the largest of the islands. It is named after Frits Adriaan Van Hulssen (1924–2016), the Dutch responsible for radio communications on the Mawson station in 1955.
Web links
- Van Hulssen Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Van Hulssen Islands on geographic.org (English)