Greater Mackellar Island
| Greater Mackellar Island | ||
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| Waters | Commonwealth Bay | |
| Archipelago | Mackellar Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 142 ° 38 ′ E | |
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Greater Mackellar Island is an island off the George V coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It is the largest of the Mackellar Islands and is 3 km north of Cape Denison in the center of the Commonwealth Bay .
They were discovered by participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named them in connection with the naming for the entire archipelago. Its namesake is Campbell Duncan Mackellar (1859-1925), a sponsor of the research trip , who was previously involved in financing the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Greater Mackellar Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Greater Mackellar Island on geographic.org (English)