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.