Cronk Islands

Cronk Islands
Waters	Vincennes Bay
archipelago	Windmill Islands
Geographical location	66 ° 19 ′  S , 110 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 19 ′  S , 110 ° 25 ′  E
Map of the middle Windmill Islands with the Cronk Islands (left of center)

The Cronk Islands ( English Cronk Islands ) are a group of islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . In the archipelago of the Windmill Islands , they are located northeast of Hollin Island .

They were first mapped using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) and Operation Windmill (1947–1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American glaciologist Caspar Cronk (* 1935), who worked at Wilkes Station in 1958 .

Web links

• Cronk Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cronk Islands on geographic.org (English)
• Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)