Beall Island
| Beall Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.8 km | |
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Beall Island is a 1.8 km long island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It has small bays on the east and west coast and is 330 m northwest of the Mitchell Peninsula . Denison Island is 400 m further west .
The island was first mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after the American meteorologist James McClenahan Beall (1917-2016) of the United States Weather Bureau , who helped make weather forecasts during Operation Windmill.
Web links
- Beall Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beall Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)