Motherway Island

Motherway Island: Motherway Island is a small rocky island about 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) north of Peterson Island, near the south end of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Paul T. Motherway, member of one of the two U.S. Navy Operation Windmill photographic units which obtained aerial and ground photographic coverage of this area in January 1948.

See also

List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Motherway Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 66°26′S 110°31′E / 66.433°S 110.517°E / -66.433; 110.517

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