Taylor Islands
| Taylor Islands | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| archipelago | Highjump Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 5 ′ S , 100 ° 17 ′ E | |
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The Taylor Islands are a group of rocky islets and reefs that mark the western end of the Highjump Archipelago on the western flank of the Edisto glacier tongue .
The islands were mapped using aerial photographs from Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Richard Spence Taylor, who as a geodesist in the United States Navy in Operation Windmill (1947-1948) at the establishment of astronomical observation stations between Kaiser Wilhelm II. Land and the Budd Coast was involved.
Web links
- Taylor Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Islands on geographic.org (English)