Vicars Island (Antarctica)
| Vicars Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 51 ′ S , 54 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Vicars Island is a small uninhabited, snow-covered island about 3.7 km off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered them on January 12, 1930. Mawson named them after Vicars Woolen Mill , a textile company from Marrickville in New South Wales , that of the expedition Had given material for uniforms.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vicars Island ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 29, 2011.