Edman Island
Edman Island | ||
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Waters | O'Brien Bay | |
Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 18 ′ S , 110 ° 32 ′ E | |
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Edman Island is an island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is near the center of O'Brien Bay .
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 them in 1963 after Donald H. Edman, an ionospheric researcher at Wilkes Station in 1958.
Web links
- Edman Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Edman Island on geographic.org (English)