Wigg Islands
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 32 ' S , 62 ° 34' E | |
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| Number of islands | 6th | |
The Wigg Islands are a group of six small islands off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In Holme Bay they are 10 km northwest of the Flat Islands .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 and named them Mesteinene ( Norwegian for middle stones ). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after David R. Wigg, a doctor on Mawson Station in 1962.
Web links
- Wigg Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wigg Islands on geographic.org (English)