Hodgeman Islands
| Hodgeman Islands | ||
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| Waters | Watt Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 1 ′ S , 144 ° 14 ′ E | |
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The Hodgeman Islands are a group of small islands off the George V coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the eastern part of Watt Bay they are 6 km west-southwest of Cape De la Motte .
They were discovered by participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after Alfred James Hodgeman (1885-1964), cartographer and assistant meteorologist on this research trip.
Web links
- Hodgeman Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hodgeman Islands on geographic.org (English)