Hollin Island

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Hollin Island
Waters Vincennes Bay
Archipelago Windmill Islands
Geographical location 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E
Hollin Island (Antarctica)
Hollin Island
length 1.5 km
Map of the Middle Windmill Islands with Hollin Island (left of center)
Map of the Middle Windmill Islands with Hollin Island (left of center)

Hollin Island is an approximately 1.5 km long island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is north of Midgley Island .

The island was first mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after the American glaciologist John Trevor Hollin, who worked at Wilkes Station in 1958 .

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