Spano Island
| Spano Island | ||
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| Waters | Penney Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 110 ° 36 ′ E | |
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Spano Island is a small rock island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It is located 800 m north of the western end of Herring Island .
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 1963 after Angelo F. Spano (1929-2005), a meteorologist at Wilkes Station in 1960.
Web links
- Spano Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spano Island on geographic.org (English)