The Swain Islands are a group of small islands and rocks about in extent, lying north of
Clark Peninsula at the northeast end of the
Windmill Islands
The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks about wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land for immediately north of Vanderford Glacier along the east side of Vincennes Bay. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area w ...
. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947. Named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for
K. C. Swain
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the English alphabet.
K may also refer to:
General uses
* K, a normal modal logic
* K (programming language), an array processing language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems
* K ( ...
who served as air crewman with the central task group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and also with USN.
Operation Windmill
Operation Windmill (OpWml) was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost enti ...
which obtained aerial and ground photographic coverage of the Windmill Islands in January 1948.
Islands
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Berkley Island
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Bradford Rock
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Burnett Island
Burnett Island in the Antarctic () is a rocky island, long in an east–west direction, which lies north of Honkala Island and is the central feature in the Swain Islands. First photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–4 ...
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Cameron Island
Cameron Island is one of the uninhabited members of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. Located in the Arctic Ocean, close to Bathurst Island, it has an area of , long and wide. Île Vanier lies imme ...
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Daniel Island
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Hailstorm Island
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Honkala Island
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Wonsey Rock
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Wyche Island
See also
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
* Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the ...
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List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
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SCAR
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrosis, fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other Organ (anatomy), organs, and biological tissue, t ...
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight land claim, territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observat ...
* Swains Island
Swains Island
Swain, Swains or Swain's may refer to:
Places
* Swain Islands, Antarctica
* Swain's Island (Newfoundland and Labrador), Canada
* Swains Island, an atoll in the Tokelau chain, American Samoa
* Swain County, North Carolina, United States
* Swa ...
References
External links
Windmill Islands
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