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Dewart Island
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
and its position
fixed
by the
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
. It was named by
Carl
R. Eklund for
Gilbert
Dewart, a seismologist at
Wilkes Station
, 1957.
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
The island forms part of the
Frazier Islands Antarctic Specially Protected Area
No.
160
because it supports one of only four known
breeding colonies
of
southern
giant
petrels on continental
Antarctica
.