Wyatt Earp Islands
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 22 ′ S , 78 ° 32 ′ E | |
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The Wyatt Earp Islands are a small group of islands and cliffs off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . They are located 800 m north of the Walkabout Rocks in front of the northern foothills of the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who named them Nørsteholmen (Norwegian for Northern Islands ), mapped them using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the ship Wyatt Earp of the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth , with which the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins landed on January 11, 1939 at the neighboring Walkabout Rocks.
Web links
- Wyatt Earp Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wyatt Earp Islands on geographic.org (English)