Patricia Islands
| Patricia Islands | ||
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| Waters | Edward VIII Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 51 ′ S , 56 ° 47 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Patricia Islands (in Australia Georges Islands ) are a group of three small islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . These are located 24 km southwest of Austnes Point in the western part of Edward VIII Bay .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations discovered her on board the research vessel RRS William Scoresby in February 1936 and named her. The namesake is not known. Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They were first visited in 1954 by a team led by the Australian geodesist Robert George Dovers (1921–1981) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Patricia Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Patricia Islands on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georges Islands in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed June 13, 2017