Waite Islands
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| Waters | Amundsen lake | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 44 ′ S , 103 ° 40 ′ W | |
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The Waite Islands are a group of small islands in the Amundsen Sea off the Walgreen coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . They are located 10 km west of Cape Waite , the northwestern extension of the King Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the neighboring cape. Its namesake is Amory Hooper Waite Jr. (1902-1985), a participant in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , on the trip on the icebreaker Atka in 1955 and on the US expedition Navy in the Bellingshausen Sea (1959–1960).
Web links
- Waite Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waite Islands on geographic.org (English)