Azimuth Islands
| Azimuth Islands | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 ′ S , 62 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 4th | |
| Main island | Azimuth Island | |
The Azimuth Islands are a group of four small islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are located 1.5 km northwest of the Parallactic Islands in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it so because the largest of these islands served participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959 as a benchmark for determining the azimuth during triangulation measurements.
Web links
- Azimuth Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Azimuth Islands on geographic.org (English)