Warnock Islands
| Warnock Islands | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| archipelago | William Scoresby Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 12 ′ S , 59 ° 44 ′ E | |
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The Warnock Islands are a group of islands in the William Scoresby Archipelago off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are 1.5 km south and southwest of Dales Island at the northern end of the archipelago.
The island was discovered and named in February 1936 by participants in the British Discovery Investigations on board the research vessel RRS William Scoresby . Namesake is the Canadian John Fleming Warnock (1887-1940), second engineer on this ship.
Web links
- Warnock Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Warnock Islands on geographic.org (English)