Maher Island
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| Waters | Amundsen Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 58 ′ S , 126 ° 22 ′ W | |
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Maher Island is a small, horseshoe-shaped island with numerous rocky outcrops off the Bakutis coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is 11 km north of the northwest end of Siple Island .
The island was discovered and photographed from the air during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1962 after Eugene Hugh Maher (1908–1981) of the United States Navy , commander of the icebreaker USS Glacier in Operation Deep Freeze I, which lasted from 1955 to 1956 .
Web links
- Maher Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maher Island on geographic.org (English)