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)
Rouse Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rouse 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 four small islands, about 2 km south of Welch Island, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 13 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. They have since been found to be islands.
Named them Rouse Rocks after E.J. Rouse of Sydney, who assisted the expedition with photographic equipment.
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