Balaena Islands
The Balaena Islands are a small group of rocky islands lying close to the coast of Antarctica, northeast of Cape Folger. They were first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. [Navy Operation Highjump], 1946–47, and were named by the Advisory [Committee on Antarctic Names] after the British floating factory Balaena, from which sketches of Knox Coast and Budd Coast were obtained as the result of reconnaissance flights and shipboard observations in 1947.