Motherway Island is a small rocky island about 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) north ofPeterson Island, near the south end of theWindmill Islands of Antarctica. It was first mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. NavyOperation Highjump in February 1947. It was named by theAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names forPaul T. Motherway, a member of one of the twoOperation Windmill photographic units which obtained aerial and ground photographic coverage of this area in January 1948.[1]
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66°26′S110°31′E / 66.433°S 110.517°E /-66.433; 110.517
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