Hollin Island
Hollin Island | ||
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Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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length | 1.5 km | |
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 .
Web links
- Hollin Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hollin Island on geographic.org (English)