Shaw Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Shaw Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of islands, in the south-west part of Casey Bay near the Hannan Ice Shelf. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft during 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by Bruce H. Stinear in October, 1957. Named after J.E. Shaw, physicist at Mawson in 1957.
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