Mackellar Islands
| Mackellar Islands | ||
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| Waters | Commonwealth Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 142 ° 39 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | approx. 30 | |
| Main island | Greater Mackellar Island | |
The Mackellar Islands are a group of around 30 islands and cliffs off the George V coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory . They are located 2.5 km north of Cape Denison in the eastern part of 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 it after Campbell Duncan Mackellar (1859-1925), a financier of the expedition, who was previously involved in financing the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Mackellar Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackellar Islands on geographic.org (English)