Birkenhauer Island

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Birkenhauer Island
Waters Penney Bay
Archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 29 ′  S , 110 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 29 ′  S , 110 ° 37 ′  E
Birkenhauer Island (Antarctica)
Birkenhauer Island
Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Birkenhauer Island (bottom, right center)
Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Birkenhauer Island (bottom, right center)

Birkenhauer Island is a largely ice-free island in the Windmill Archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located south of Boffa Island off the west side of the Browning Peninsula .

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 it after the American seismologist Henry F. Birkenhauer (1914-2003), who worked in 1958 at Wilkes Station .

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