Warriner Island
| Warriner Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 37 ′ S , 77 ° 54 ′ E | |
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Warriner Island is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is located just before the western end of the Breidnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the island after Anthony Warriner (* 1936), a radio operator at Davis Station in 1961.
Web links
- Warriner Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Warriner Island on geographic.org (English)