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)
Way Archipelago (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Way Archipelago (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Archipelago
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:
More than 120 small islands and rocks, of which the largest is Stillwell Island, distributed close off-shore in the form of an arc in the vicinity of Cape Gray, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Samuel Way, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide in 1911.
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