Bøving Island
| Bøving Island | ||
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| Waters | Newcomb Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 17 ′ S , 110 ° 31 ′ E | |
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Bøving Island is a small island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 160 m east of McMullin Island in the southern part of Newcomb Bay .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1965 after Frants J. Bøving, third officer on the research vessel Thala Dan that year, who was involved in the hydrographic survey of the area around the island.
Web links
- Bøving Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bøving Island on geographic.org (English)