Way archipelago
| Way archipelago | ||
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| Waters | Commonwealth Bay and Watt Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 143 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | > 120 | |
| Main island | Stillwell Island | |
The Way Archipelago is an arched archipelago made up of more than 120 small islands and cliffs off the George V coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory . These are distributed from the area around Cape Gray on the east side of the entrance to Commonwealth Bay to the east side of the entrance to Watt Bay . The largest island in the archipelago is Stillwell Island with a diameter of 400 m .
Participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered the archipelago. Mawson named him after the Australian lawyer Samuel Way (1836-1916), Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1883 to 1916 and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1876 until his death.
Web links
- Way Archipelago in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Way Archipelago on geographic.org (English)