Greben' Island
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Greben' Island is a small island lying close north of the east end of
Haswell Island Haswell Island is the largest of the Haswell Islands, lying off the coast of Antarctica, about north of Mabus Point in Queen Mary Land. It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawso ...
in the
Haswell Islands The Haswell Islands are a group of rocky coastal islands lying off Mabus Point, Antarctica, and extending about seaward. They were charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson (1911–14), who applied the name "Rookery I ...
of Antarctica. It was photographed and plotted by the Soviet expedition of 1956, and named Greben' (comb) because of its ridgelike shape.


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List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. * Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the ...


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Islands of Queen Mary Land {{QueenMaryLand-geo-stub