Herring Island (Antarctica)
| Herring Island | ||
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| Waters | Penney Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 3 km | |
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Herring Island is a 3 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 1.5 km east of the island of Cloyd 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 Lieutenant Charles C. Herring of the United States Navy , a photographer on Operation Windmill.
Web links
- Herring Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Herring Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)