Khmara Island is a small island lying south of
Haswell Island,
Queen Mary Coast
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, Antarctica. It was mapped from aerial photos taken by U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
, 1946–47. It was remapped by the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the So ...
, 1956, and named after tractor driver
Ivan F. Khmara.
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See also
* List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands
* Khmara Bay
References
Islands of Queen Mary Land
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