Cloyd Island

Cloyd Island
Waters	Penney Bay
Archipelago	Windmill Islands
Geographical location	66 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 66 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E
length	1 km
	Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Cloyd Island (above)

Cloyd Island is a 1.0 km long rock island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located between the islands of Ford Island and Herring Island .

The island was first mapped using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1956 after J. R. Cloyd, observer for army transports of the United States Navy during Operation Windmill for the establishment of astronomical observation stations in January 1948.

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