Ommundsen Island

Ommundsen Island
Waters	Vincennes Bay
Archipelago	Windmill Islands
Geographical location	66 ° 20 ′  S , 110 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 20 ′  S , 110 ° 22 ′  E
Map of the middle Windmill Islands with Ommundsen Island (left)

Ommundsen Island is an island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located immediately west of Midgley Island .

The island was mapped using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after the Norwegian Audon Ommundsen (* 1932), a transport specialist at Wilkes Station in 1958.

Web links

• Ommundsen Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Ommundsen Island on geographic.org (English)