Midgley Island

Midgley Island
Waters	Vincennes Bay
Archipelago	Windmill Islands
Geographical location	66 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 66 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E
length	1.3 km
	Map of the Middle Windmill Islands with Midgley Island (left of center)

Midgley Island is a 1.3 km long rock island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located immediately south of Hollin 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 Lieutenant Elwin Wilmer Midgley (1921-1984) of the United States Army Medical Corps , who helped the teams of Operation Windmill to set up astronomical observation stations between the coast of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Land and assisted the Budd Coast .

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