Moyes Islands
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| Waters | Watt Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 1 ′ S , 143 ° 51 ′ E | |
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The Moyes Islands are three groups of small islands off the coast of the East Antarctic George V Land . They are 4 km southeast of Cape Pigeon Rocks in Watt 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 Morton Henry Moyes (1886–1981), the meteorologist on the expedition.
Web links
- Moyes Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moyes Islands on geographic.org (English)