The Auster Islands are a group of small islands at the northeast end of the Robinson Group, located north of Cape Daly, Mac. Robertson Land. They were mapped from

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). History Australia has had a long involv ...

(ANARE) surveys and from air photos 1959–66, and so named by the

Antarctic Names Committee of Australia The Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC) was established to advise the Government on names for features in the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. The committee ...

because of the nearness of the islands to

Auster rookery Auster Rookery is an Emperor penguin rookery on sea-ice, sheltered by grounded icebergs, east of the Auster Islands, and about ENE of Mawson Station in Antarctica. It was discovered in August 1957 by Flying Officer D. Johnston, RAAF, from an ...

, and because they have provided a camp site for ANARE parties visiting the

rookery A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-forming seabirds, marine mammals (true seals and sea lions), and ev ...

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* Islands of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub

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