Molholm Island
Molholm Island | ||
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Waters | McGrady Cove | |
Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
Geographical location | 66 ° 16 ′ S , 110 ° 33 ′ E | |
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Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Molholm Island (lower half of the map) |
Molholm Island is an island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located in the entrance to McGrady Cove on the eastern section of Newcomb Bay .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). In 1957, scientists at Wilkes Station under the direction of the US polar explorer Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) carried out a survey. Eklund named it after John Robertson Latady Molholm (* 1938), a glaciologist at Wilkes Station in the same year.
Web links
- Molholm Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Molholm Island on geographic.org (English)