Motherway Island
| Motherway Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 26 ′ S , 110 ° 31 ′ E | |
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Motherway Island is a small rock island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located 325 m north of Peterson Island near the southern end of the archipelago.
The island was mapped on the basis of aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from February 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Paul Thomas Motherway (1927-2002), a member of one of two units in the United States Navy for the creation of aerial photographs and photographs on site during Operation Windmill (1947-1948) in January 1948.
Web links
- Motherway Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Motherway Island on geographic.org (English)