Martin Island (other)

	Martin Island (other) Martin Island or similar may refer to: * Martin Island (Antarctica) * Martin Islet, New South Wales * Martin Islands, part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago * Martin Islands (Antarctica) See also * Byam Martin Island * Saint Martin Island (other) Saint Martin Island may refer to: * Saint Martin (island), an island in the northeast Caribbean * St. Martin Island, an island in Michigan * St. Martin's Island, an island of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal * St Martin's, Isles of Scilly See also ... {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Martin Island (Antarctica) Martin Island is a small island in the northern part of Edward VIII Bay, Antarctica, just off the south shore of Edward VIII Plateau. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and called "Utvikgalten" (the outer bay boar). The island was remapped by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE), and was renamed by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia in 1958 for A.R. Martin, officer in charge of the ANARE party at Macquarie Island Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 197 ... in 1948. See also * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands References Islands of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Martin Islet, New South Wales Martin Islet () is a small island lying just off Red Point, Port Kembla in New South Wales, Australia. William Martin The Five Islands, of which Martin Islet is one, were named Martins Isles by Matthew Flinders and George Bass after Bass's navy servant William Martin. Martin was part of their three-man crew when they anchored by the island on 25 March 1796 in the ''Tom Thumb'', having been swept a long way off-course on their way to Port Hacking.Miriam Estensen, ''The Life of George Bass'', Allen and Unwin, 2005, . Little is known of Martin's life. He was baptised on 4 March 1781 at Dartford Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located south-east of Central London and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames estuary, is Thurrock in .... In 1794 aged 13 he was employed by the navy as a loblolly boy, meaning personal servant, to Bass who was the surgeon on board HM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Martin Islands The Martin Islands are part of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are located in western Gulf of Boothia near the Boothia Peninsula Boothia Peninsula (; formerly ''Boothia Felix'', Inuktitut ''Kingngailap Nunanga'') is a large peninsula in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. The northern part, Murchison Promontory, is the northernmost point of .... References Islands of the Gulf of Boothia Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region {{KitikmeotNU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Martin Islands (Antarctica) The Martin Islands are a group of islands and rocks in extent lying 5 nautical miles east of the northern part of Renaud Island, and west of Vieugue Island in Grandidier Channel, Antarctica. A group of islands to the north of "Pitt Island" was roughly charted and named "Martin Islands" for Captain Martin of the Argentine Navy, by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05 The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. First expedition In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ..., under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Aerial surveys have shown that what appeared to be one large island, Pitt, is actually a group of small islands. As they lie in one group with no logical division between them, the earlier name of Pitt was amended to Pitt Islands and extended to cover all the islands north of Renaud Island. The name Martin Islands was transferre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Byam Martin Island Byam Martin Island (''BEI-uhm'') is one of the Canadian arctic islands located on the northern side of the Viscount Melville Sound in the territory of Nunavut. It is separated from the eastern coast of Melville Island, to the west, by the Byam Martin Channel; and from Bathurst Island, to the northeast, by the Austin Channel. Byam Martin Island is long, wide, and measures in area. The island was named after Sir Thomas Byam Martin by Sir William Edward Parry in August 1819 during his first expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. References External links Byam Martin Islandin the Atlas of Canada The Atlas of Canada (french: L'Atlas du Canada) is an online atlas published by Natural Resources Canada that has information on every city, town, village, and hamlet in Canada. It was originally a print atlas, with its first edition being publishe ... - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada Islands of the Queen Elizabeth Islands Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]