Shirley Island
| Shirley Island | ||
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| Waters | Newcomb Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
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Shirley Island is a 1.5 km long rock island in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 160 m northwest of the western end of the Bailey Peninsula .
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 1956 after the chief photographer of this United States Navy venture , Charles C. Shirley (1909–1989).
Web links
- Shirley Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shirley Island on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)