Johansen Islands

The Johansen Islands are a group of small, low, partly snow-free islands lying within Lazarev Bay and Wilkins Sound, west-northwest of Cape Vostok, at the northwest end of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were discovered from the on its initial approach to establish the East Base of the United [States Antarctic Service] in 1940, and were named for Bendik Johansen, the ice pilot for the expedition, who served in a similar capacity on the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions of 1928–30 and 1933–35.