Lindsey Islands
| Lindsey Islands | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 37 ′ S , 103 ° 18 ′ W | |
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The Lindsey Islands are a group of islands off the Walgreen coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . They are located just off the northwestern tip of the Canisteo Peninsula in the Amundsen Sea .
The islands were mapped on the basis of aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1960 after Alton Anthony Lindsey (1907-1999), a biologist on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) ) by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Lindsey Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lindsey Islands on geographic.org (English)