Shaw Islands
| Shaw Islands | ||
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| Waters | Casey Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 47 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 4th | |
| Main island | Il'in Iceland | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Shaw Islands are a group of four islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They are 3 km north of central McKinnon Island off the edge of the Hannan Ice Shelf .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 were used for their mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the physicist John Eric Shaw (* 1929), who worked at Mawson Station in 1957 .
Web links
- Shaw Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shaw Islands on geographic.org