Jocelyn Islands
| Jocelyn Islands | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ' S , 62 ° 53' E | |
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| Main island | Petersen Island | |
The Jocelyn Islands are a group of islands off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They lie between the Flat Islands and the Rouse Islands in the eastern section of Holme Bay and are separated from the mainland coast by the Kista Strait .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They also called them Meholmane (Norwegian for central islands ). Participants in a campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions named it after the Australian radio journalist Jocelyn Terry (later married Evans, 1929-2007), who broadcast news and communications from and to Antarctica for some years for Radio Australia .
Web links
- Jocelyn Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jocelyn Islands on geographic.org (English)