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Welch Island (Antarctica)
Welch Island
is an
island
, long with a
prominent
pinnacle
rock
of,
lying
north
of
Rouse Islands
and off the
shore
in the
eastern
side of
Holme Bay
. is south of
Welch Rocks
.
Welch
Island
was
discovered
in
February 1931
by the
British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition
under
Sir Douglas Mawson
, who named it for B. F. Welch,
Second Engineer
on the RRS
Discovery
.