Gillies Islands
| Gillies Islands | ||
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| Waters | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 ′ S , 96 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Gillies Islands are three small and rocky islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . They jut out of the Shackleton Ice Shelf 5 km north of Cape Moyes .
They were discovered by the crew of the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after Frederick Jacob M. Gillies (1874-1941), the chief engineer of his research vessel Aurora . During the US operation Windmill (1947-1948), the middle of the islands was the location of an astronomical observation station.
Web links
- Gillies Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gillies Islands on geographic.org (English)