Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Motherway Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Motherway Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A small rocky island about 0.2 mi N of Peterson Island, near the S end of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation HighJump in February 1947. Named by the US-ACAN for Paul T. Motherway, member of one of the two USN Operation Windmill photographic units which obtained aerial and ground photographic coverage of this area in January 1948.
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