Balaena Islands
| Balaena Islands | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 1 ′ S , 111 ° 6 ′ E | |
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| Main island | Thompson Island | |
The Balaena Islands are a small group of rocky islands near the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . They are 16 km northeast of Cape Folger .
They were first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the Balaena , a British factory ship from the Harland & Wolff shipyard with 15,715 gross tons , from which the Budd and Knox coasts were mapped in 1947 .
Web links
- Balaena Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Balaena Islands on geographic.org (English)