Dewart Island Explained

Dewart Island is the central island in the Frazier Islands, in Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica.

History

The island was photographed from the air in the course of the US Navy's Operation Highjump (1946–47) and its position fixed by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956). It was named by Carl R. Eklund for Gilbert Dewart, a seismologist at Wilkes Station, 1957.^[1]

Antarctic Specially Protected Area

The island forms part of the Frazier Islands Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.160 because it supports one of only four known breeding colonies of southern giant petrels on continental Antarctica.^[2]

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Notes and References

1. antarid . 3817. Dewart Island. 2012-01-17.
2. Web site: Frazier Islands, Windmill Islands, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica . 2013-03-11 . Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 160: Measure 13, Annex . Antarctic Treaty Secretariat . 2008.