Gillies Islands

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Gillies Islands
Waters Shackleton Ice Shelf
Geographical location 66 ° 32 ′  S , 96 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 32 ′  S , 96 ° 25 ′  E
Gillies Islands (Antarctica)
Gillies Islands
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.

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