COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

in NW entrance of Nelson Strait, NNE of Newell Point, Robert Island, were roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers and sometimes included under the names Heywood Islands or Powels [sic] Islands (Heywood Island, q.v.); following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Mellona Rocks after the British sealing ship Mellona (Capt. T. (?) Johnson, Johnsons Dock, q.v.) from Newcastle, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22, anchoring at Clothier Harbour and Shirreff Cove and narrowly escaping being wrecked on Desolation Island, 25 March 1822 (APC, 1962, p.21; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Islotes Heywood (Chile. DNH chart 1400, 1961).

Group of rocks lying 2 mi NE of Newell Point, Robert Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1961 after the British sealing vessel Mellona (Captain Johnson) from Newcastle, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22.