Douglas Islands
| Douglas Islands | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 23 ′ S , 63 ° 22 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Douglas Islands are two small islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are 19 km northwest of Cape Daly .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered and named them. It is named after Percy Douglas (1876-1939), hydrograph of the Royal Navy and later chairman of the commission for the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Based on aerial photographs the islands were initially at 66 ° 40 ' S , 64 ° 30' O locates, from 1931 at 67 ° 20 ' S , 63 ° 32' O . A sled team around the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) was unable to identify the islands in any of the positions mentioned in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and transferred the names to the islands described here.
Web links
- Douglas Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Douglas Islands on geographic.org (English)