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 Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for R.T. Lee, a diesel mechanic at nearby Mawson Station in 1957.[1]

For the former Lee Island in Canada's Nunavut territory, see Kaavvijjuaq.
Lee Island
Lee Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates67°35′S 62°52′E
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

See also
  • List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References
  1. "Lee Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-07.

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