Koala Island is an island located west of
Pinn Island and just north of the eastern end of
McKinnon Island, off the coast of
Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
History
Australia has had a long involv ...
aircraft in 1956. The island was named by the
Antarctic Names Committee of Australia after the
koala
The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the womb ...
, an Australian
marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...
.
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See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of Enderby Land
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