Waterhouse Island (Antarctica)

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Waterhouse Island
Waters Prydz Bay
Geographical location 68 ° 32 '4 "  S , 77 ° 56' 48"  E Coordinates: 68 ° 32 '4 "  S , 77 ° 56' 48"  O
Waterhouse Island (Antarctica) (Antarctica)
Waterhouse Island (Antarctica)
length 426 m
width 327 m
surface 9.6 ha
Highest elevation 37.5  m
Residents uninhabited

Waterhouse Island is an island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located around 3.5 km north-north-west of the Australian Davis station and immediately south-south-west of Lugg Island .

The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1973 after Robbin S. Waterhouse, a medical officer at Davis Station in 1971, who also worked the following year on Macquarie Island , sub-Antarctic .

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