Hemphill Island
| Hemphill Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 23 ′ S , 110 ° 34 ′ E | |
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Hemphill Island is a small and largely ice-covered island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located between the mainland Robinson Ridge peninsula and Odbert 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 1963 after George R. Hemphill, a meteorologist at Wilkes Station in 1961.
Web links
- Hemphill Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hemphill Island on geographic.org (English)