Ford Island (Antarctica)
| Ford Island | ||
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| Waters | Penney Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.1 km | |
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Ford Island is a 2.1 km long island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It lies between the islands of O'Connor Island and Cloyd Island .
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 them in 1956 after Homer D. Ford, photographer of the so-called Eastern Task Force for Operation Highjump and assistant photographer for Operation Windmill.
Web links
- Ford Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)