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Adams Island (Antarctica)

Coordinates: 66°33′S 092°35′E / 66.550°S 92.583°E / -66.550; 92.583
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Adams Island
Adams Island is located in Antarctica
Adams Island
Adams Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates66°33′S 092°35′E / 66.550°S 92.583°E / -66.550; 92.583
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited
Edgar Lucas Adams

There are other Adams Islands, including one more subantarctic island. See Adams Island (disambiguation) for other meanings.

Adams Island is a small rocky coastal antarctic island embedded in thick bay ice most of the year, lying at the western side of McDonald Bay, about 20.4 km (11 nmi) west of Mabus Point. Adams Island was named after Edgar Lucas Adams (1883 - 1928), the boatswain of the expedition ship, Aurora. The island was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914, under Douglas Mawson, and named by him for the boatswain of the expedition ship Aurora.


References

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Adams Island (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  • Personal diaries of Edgar Lucas Adams, in possession of his great grand daughter.

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