Sheelagh Islands
| Sheelagh Islands | ||
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| Waters | Amundsen Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 32 ′ S , 50 ° 12 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Sheelagh Islands are a group of small islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They are located 5 km south of Cape Kolossow near the exit from Amundsen Bay .
Presumably these islands were the landing place for the flight of the Norwegian polar explorer Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen on December 22, 1929. A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) landed here on February 14, 1958. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the islands after Sheelagh Margaret Thompson (1930–2013), wife of Richard Hugh John Thompson, deputy director of several ANARE campaigns.
Web links
- Sheelagh Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sheelagh Islands on geographic.org (English)