Boffa Island

Boffa Island
Waters	Penney Bay
Archipelago	Windmill Islands
Geographical location	66 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 66 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E
length	1.3 km
	Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Boffa Island (right of center)

Boffa Island is a 1.3 km long, rocky and ridge- like island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 800 m east of the Browning Peninsula between Bosner Island and Birkenhauer Island .

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 Waldo C. Boffa (1916–1978) of the Strategic Air Command , who in January 1948 supported the crews of Operation Windmill in setting up astronomical observation stations.

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