Borrello Island
| Borrello Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ S , 110 ° 22 ′ E | |
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Borrello Island is a small island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located off the west coast of Hollin Island .
The island was first mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American geomagnetologist Sebastian Ronald Borrello (* 1935), who worked at Wilkes Station in 1958 .
Web links
- Borrello Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Borrello Island on geographic.org (English)