Davis Islands
| Davis Islands | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 40 ′ S , 108 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| Main island | Hudson Island | |
The Davis Islands ( English Davis Islands ) are a small group of rocky islands off the Knox coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . They are located in the western part of Vincennes Bay .
The first mapping in 1955 was carried out by the American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Malcom Davis (1899-1970), curator of the biological collection of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park , who was involved as an ornithologist in Operation Windmill (1947-1948).
Web links
- Davis Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Islands on geographic.org (English)