Hobbs Islands

The Hobbs Islands are a group of islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are 16 km northeast of William Scoresby Bay .

Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered the largest of these islands on February 18, 1931. Erroneously assuming it was a cape , Mawson gave it the Name Cape Hobbs . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations on board the RRS William Scoresby in 1936 and the crew of the Thorshavn on the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 uncovered the real nature of this and the adjacent objects. The naming made by Mawson was transferred to the archipelago in an adapted form. It is named after the American geologist , glaciologist , geographer and Arctic explorer William Herbert Hobbs (1864–1953) from the University of Michigan , member of the United States Geological Survey from 1886 to 1906.

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