Sheehan Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sheehan Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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An island about 7 km off the coast of Kemp Land, about 19 km WSW of Hobbs Island. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. BANZARE erroneously charted this feature as lying behind the coastline. Its insularity was determined by the William Scoresby Expedition in 1936. The island and its neighbours were more accurately charted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).
Named after Sheehan Nunatak after H.H. Sheehan, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of the Australian Antarctic Committee of BANZARE time.
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