Waterhouse Island (Antarctica)
Waterhouse Island | ||
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Waters | Prydz Bay | |
Geographical location | 68 ° 32 '4 " S , 77 ° 56' 48" E | |
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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 .
Web links
- Waterhouse Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)