Verner Island is one of the
Jocelyn Islands
The Jocelyn Islands are a group of islands lying between the Flat Islands and the Rouse Islands in the eastern part of Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. The group, which is made up (going west-to-east) the Lee Island, Verner Island, ...
, lying just west of
Petersen Island, just east of
Lee Island
Lee Island is an island just west of Teyssier Island, Verner Island, and Petersen Island, just east of Kista Strait, Stinear Island, and Béchervaise Island, and just south of Moller Bank and Carstens Shoal, in Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson ...
and
Kista Strait, and just south of
Moller Bank and
Carstens Shoal, in
Holme Bay Holme Bay is a bay in Antarctica in Mac. Robertson Land, wide, containing many islands, indenting the coast north of the Framnes Mountains. Holme Bay is largely snow-free and was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by ...
,
Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. It is located at . In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the British Au ...
. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the
Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and remapped by ANARE (
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 ...
) in 1956. It was named
Verner Pedersen, the chief officer of the ''
Thala Dan Thala may refer to:
Places
* Thala Hills, Antarctica
* Thala Island, Antarctica
* Thala Rock, Antarctica
* Thala, Tunisia, a town in Kasserine Governorate
Other uses
* ''Thala'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
* Ajith Kumar (born 197 ...
'' in 1961.
See also
*
List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
Islands of Mac. Robertson Land
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