West Budd Island
| West Budd Island | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Archipelago | Flat Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ S , 62 ° 51 ′ E | |
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West Budd Island is one of two large islands (the other is East Budd Island ) at the northern end of the Flat Islands in Holme Bay on the Mawson Coast of Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica .
Norwegian cartographers mapped both islands using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . They named them as Flatøynålane (Norwegian for flat island needles ). In contrast, the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named both in 1960 after Grahame Murray Budd (* 1930), a doctor on Mawson's ward in 1959.
Web links
- West Budd Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- West Budd Island on geographic.org (English)