Rookery Islands
Rookery Islands | ||
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Waters | Holme Bay | |
Geographical location | 67 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 31 ′ E | |
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The Rookery Islands (from the English translated mutatis mutandis breeding colony-islands ; Norwegian Innerskjera , interior archipelago ' ) are a group of small islands before the Mawson coast of the east Antarctic Mac-Robertson-contiguous . They are located in the southwestern part of Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , who visited the islands in 1954 and 1955, changed the Norwegian name. They named it after the breeding colony of Adelie penguins on the largest of the islands.
Web links
- Rookery Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rookery Islands on geographic.org (English)