Pidgeon Island
| Pidgeon Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.1 km | |
| width | 1.4 km | |
| surface | 1 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Pidgeon Island is a 2.1 km long, 1.4 km wide and rocky island off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . In the archipelago of the Windmill Islands , it is 4.5 km as the crow flies southwest of Casey Station between Midgley Island and the Mitchell Peninsula . It is separated from the mainland by the 300 m wide Robertson Canal . The closest island is Warrington Island in the south, separated by a waterway that is only 85 m wide. On the north side of the island is Lynsky Cove
It was first mapped during overflights of the area during Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill between 1947 and 1948. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the island after Earl Chester Pidgeon (1926–1985), who was involved in the creation and analysis of the aerial photographs.
Web links
- Pidgeon Island at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1214 (English).