Bosner Island
| Bosner Island | ||
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| Waters | Penney Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 500 m | |
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Bosner Island is a 500 m long and rocky island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 160 m northwest of Boffa Island and 800 m east 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 Paul Bosner (* 1927), a member of one of the two units in Operation Windmill, which was responsible for taking aerial photographs and photos on site in the area of the island in January 1948.
Web links
- Bosner Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bosner Island on geographic.org (English)