Miles Island
| Miles Island | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Archipelago | Mariner Islands in the Highjump Archipelago , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 5 km | |
The Miles Island is a 5 km long island in the High Jump archipelago off the coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . In the group of the Mariner Islands , it lies immediately north of the Booth Peninsula .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1956 after Richard A. Miles, a crew member on the flights during Operation Highjump to take aerial photographs of the coastline between 14th and 164th degrees east.
Web links
- Miles Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Miles Island on geographic.org (English)