Rookery Islands

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.

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