Sack Island
| Sack Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 700 m | |
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Sack Island is a 700 m long rock island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 330 m east of the southern end of Holl Island .
The island was mapped on the basis of aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from February 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after Norman F. Sack (1921–1978), photographer of the Central Task Force of Operation Highjump, who participated in Operation Windmill (1947–1948) in the photo documentation of the area around the island described here was.
Web links
- Sack Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sack Island on geographic.org (English)