The Jocelyn Islands are a group of islands lying between the Flat Islands and the

Rouse Islands The Rouse Islands or Rouse Rocks are a small group of islands in the eastern part of Holme Bay in Antarctica, fringing the coast of Mac Robertson Land close south of Welch Island. The Rouse Islands have an elevation of . The Rouse Islands were d ...

in the eastern part of

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, Mac. Robertson Land,

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. The group, which is made up (going west-to-east) the Lee Island, Verner Island, and Petersen Island, were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the

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, 1936–37, and named Meholmane (the middle islands). They were renamed in 1960 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) for Jocelyn Terry, who for a number of years broadcast news and messages to Antarctica from

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

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