Haswell Island is the largest of the Haswell Islands

Haswell Islands

Haswell Islands are a group of rocky coastal islands lying off Mabus Point and extending about 1.5 mi seaward. Charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson , who applied the name Rookery Islands because of a large emperor penguin rookery on Haswell Island, the largest and...

, lying off the coast of Antarctica, about 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) north of Mabus Point

Mabus Point

Mabus Point is a cape on the Antarctic coast lying just south of Haswell Islands, marking the east limit of McDonald Bay. It was first charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition , 1911-14, under Douglas Mawson, and recharted by G.D. Blodgett in 1955 from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy...

. Discovered by the Western Base Party

Western Base Party

The Western Base Party was a successful exploration party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The eight-man Western Party was deposited by the Aurora on the Shackleton Ice Shelf at Queen Mary Land. The leader of the team was Frank Wild and the party included the geologist Charles Hoadley.The...

 of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...

, 1911–14, under Mawson, and named by him for Professor William A. Haswell, zoologist at Sydney University and member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Advisory Committee.