Blair Islands
| Blair Islands | ||
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| Waters | Commonwealth Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 50 ′ S , 143 ° 10 ′ E | |
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The Blair Islands are a group of small islands off the George V coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory . They are 6 km west of Cape Gray on the east side of the entrance to Commonwealth Bay .
Participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered the islands. Mawson named it after John Hamilton Blair (1889-1972), a senior officer on the research ship Aurora on this expedition.
Web links
- Blair Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blair Islands on geographic.org (English)