Oliphant Islands

Oliphant Islands (

60°45′S 45°36′W / 60.750°S 45.600°W / -60.750; -45.600Coordinates: 60°45′S 45°36′W / 60.750°S 45.600°W / -60.750; -45.600) is a group of small ice-free islands and rocks lying south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast extremity of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Dove Channel extends through this group in a general east-west direction. The group was roughly charted in 1912-13 by Petter Sorlle, Norwegian whaling captain, and again in 1933 by DI personnel. Surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named by them for Professor , then professor of physics, Birmingham University; later director of the of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, who gave assistance to the FIDS in obtaining equipment.

See also[]

• List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

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