Denison Island
Denison Island | ||
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Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 18 ′ S , 110 ° 27 ′ E | |
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Map of the middle Windmill Islands with Denison Island (left, above center) |
Denison Island is an island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located 400 m west of Beall Island .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after the American aurora explorer Dean R. Denison, a member of the team at Wilkes Station in 1958.
Web links
- Denison Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Denison Island on geographic.org (English)