Niles Island
| Niles Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 300 m | |
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Niles Island is a 300 m long rock island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located just off the southern end of Holl Island .
The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Operation Windmill (1947-1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after G. W. Niles, a member of the respective units of both operations for taking photographs of the area in February 1947 and January 1948.
Web links
- Niles Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Niles Island on geographic.org (English)