Canopus Island

Canopus Island is the southern of the two largest islands of the Canopus Islands in Holme Bay, Mac. [Robertson Land], with the Canopus Rocks lying about 1 nautical mile northwest of the islands. The two islands were mapped as one by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars [Christensen Expedition], 1936–37, and named Spjotöy. The island was included in a triangulation survey by Australian [National Antarctic Research Expeditions] in 1959, and named after the star Canopus.