West arm
| West arm | ||
 Aerial view of Horseshoe Harbor, which is bordered by the West Arm (foreground) and East Arm |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 52 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Mawson Coast | |
| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Horseshoe Harbor | |
The West Arm is a rocky headland on the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In Holme Bay it represents the western boundary of Horseshoe Harbor .
Norwegian cartographers roughly mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Additional aerial photographs were taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). A team led by the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law , who descriptively named the headland after its geographical location, visited it on February 5, 1954.
Web links
- West Arm in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- West Arm on geographic.org (English)