Colbeck Archipelago () is an

archipelago An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...

of numerous small rocky islands centered 1 mi northwest of

Byrd Head Byrd Head is a conspicuous, rocky headland on the Mawson Coast 1 mi southeast of Colbeck Archipelago, just west of Howard Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Doug ...

, just east of

Taylor Glacier __NOTOC__ The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range. The middle part of the glacier is bounded on ...

, off

Mawson Coast The Mawson Coast is that portion of the coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica, lying between William Scoresby Bay, at 59°34′E, and Murray Monolith, at 66°54′E. The coast was sighted during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic R ...

. Discovered in January 1930 and charted in February 1931 by the

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...

(BANZARE) under

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

. Named by Mawson for W.R. Colbeck, second officer of the expedition ship,

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. Norwegian whalers who explored this same area in January 1931 named the group 4 mi to the north the

Thorfinn Islands Thorfinn Islands is a group of small islands lying about off the Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, between Campbell Head and Cape Simpson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition ...

. The name Colbeck has sometimes appeared on charts for this latter group.

References

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