Van Hulssen Island

Van Hulssen Island is a small island off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In Holme Bay it is 5 km northwest of the Flat Islands .

Norwegian cartographers used aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 to map them as part of the Ytterskjera archipelago (Norwegian for Outer Archipelago ), which are now also known as the Van Hulssen Islands . The island was the subject of triangulation measurements by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1954 and has been the location of an automatic weather station since 1955 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after Frits Adriaan Van Hulssen (1924-2016), the Dutch responsible for radio communications on Mawson station in 1955.

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