66°32′S 93°00′E
Haswell Islands
5 nmi) seaward. They were charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson (1911–14), who applied the name "Rookery Islands" because of a large emperor penguin rookery on Haswell Island, the largest and seaward island in the group.
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Overview
The Haswell Islands are a group of rocky coastal islands lying off Mabus Point, Antarctica, and extending about 3 kilometres (1.5 nmi) seaward. They were charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson (1911–14), who applied the name "Rookery Islands" because of a large emperor penguin rookery on Haswell Island, the largest and seaward island in the group. In 1955 the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia proposed that the name Haswell be extended to the entire group.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands1
- Minor islands7
- Islets2
- Rocks & skerries0
Major islands
Haswell Island
- Area
- 0.83 km²
- High point
- 92 m
5 nmi) north of Mabus Point in Queen Mary Land. It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawson, and named by him for Professor William A. Haswell, a zoologist at Sydney University and a member of the expedition's Advisory Committee.
Minor islands
Fulmar Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Gorev Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Greben' Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Khmara Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Poryadin Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Tokarev Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Vkhodnoy Island
- Area
- —
size unknown
Islets
- Zykov Island0.03 km²
- Buromskiy Island0.5 ha
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To the same scale
Islands by area
| Haswell Island | 0.83 km² |
| Zykov Island | 0.03 km² |
| Buromskiy Island | 0.5 ha |
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Facts
Photographs
- Ivan Khmaras Stone Buromsky Island Cemetery cropped. Sergey Tarasenko / CC BY-SA 3.0