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Donovan Islands
The Donovan Islands are a chain of about 8 islands lying well offshore, about 9 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Clark Peninsula in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. S.
Overview
The Donovan Islands are a chain of about 8 islands lying well offshore, about 9 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Clark Peninsula in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, they were photographed from the air by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in January 1956, and were named after J. Donovan, Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and leader of a number of relief expeditions to Heard Island and Macquarie Island.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands2
- Minor islands0
- Islets6
- Rocks & skerries5
Major islands
Chappel Island
- Area
- 0.3 km²
- High point
- 47 m
3 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Clark Peninsula in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. The island has a number of large Adélie penguin rookeries. S. L.
Grinnell Island
- Area
- 0.15 km²
- High point
- 28 m
5 nmi) long, lying south of Chappel Island in the Donovan Islands of Antarctica. S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and was named by Carl R. Eklund for Lieutenant Sheldon W. S. Navy Reserve Medical Corps, a medical officer at Wilkes Station, 1957.
Islets
- Lilienthal Island27 m · 0.08 km²
- Glasgal Island14 m · 0.04 km²
- Unnamed island10 m · 0.01 km²
- Unnamed island11 m · 0.01 km²
- Unnamed island0.01 km²
- Unnamed island0.3 ha
Rocks & skerries
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
Figures
Comparative heights
- Chappel: 47 m
- Grinnell: 28 m
- Lilienthal: 27 m
- Glasgal: 14 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Chappel Island | 0.3 km² |
| Grinnell Island | 0.15 km² |
| Lilienthal Island | 0.08 km² |
| Glasgal Island | 0.04 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |