Robinson group (archipelago)
| Robinson group | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 27 ′ S , 63 ° 27 ′ E | |
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The Robinson Group are a group of small islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are distributed over a length of 16 km in an east-west orientation and are 19 km northwest of Cape Daly .
The archipelago was discovered in 1931 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931) led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after the Australian businessman William Sydney Robinson (1876–1963), a financier of the expedition. The group of islands happened to be sighted around the same time by the crew of the Norwegian whaling ship Thorgaut and named as Thorgautøyane . In accordance with the recommendations of the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA), the name Robinson remained for the group while the most distinctive island in the group was named Thorgaut Island . Other associated islands are Andersen Island and Macklin Island .
Web links
- Robinson Group in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robinson Group on geographic.org (English)