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
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 small island north of Peterson Island in the Windmill Islands, off the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The term island is considered more appropriate than rock. It was originally called Motherway Rock after P.T. Motherway, a member of one of the two photographic units which obtained aerial and ground photographs of the Windmill Islands during USN Operation Highjump (1947-48).
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