Peterson Island (Windmill Islands)
| Peterson Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 3 km | |
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Peterson Island is a 3 km long island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of East Antarctica Wilkesland . It is located immediately west of the Browning Peninsula in the southern section of the archipelago and has two bays on the north coast.
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 them in 1993 after Lieutenant Mendel Lazear Peterson (1919-2003), supply officer of the United States Navy for the establishment of astronomical observation stations during Operation Windmill in January 1948.
Web links
- Peterson Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peterson Island on geographic.org
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)