Mariner Islands
| Mariner Islands | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| archipelago | Highjump Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 1 ′ S , 101 ° 9 ′ E | |
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The Mariner Islands are a group of rocky islands and reefs that make up the north-central group of islands in the East Antarctic Highjump Archipelago . In the west the islands border on the Edisto glacier tongue , in the south on the Gossard Canal and in the east on the Remenchus Glacier .
They were mapped using aerial photographs from Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1956 after the type of flying boat Martin PBM Mariner , with whose help Lieutenant Commander David Eli Bunger (1909–1971) had made said aerial photographs during Operation Highjump in January 1947 and dared to land in the Bunger Hills .
Web links
- Sea Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mariner Islands on geographic.org (English)