Werlein Island
| Werlein Island | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.3 km | |
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Werlein Island is a 1.3 km long island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located 300 m southeast of Holl Island and 600 m northwest of Zimmerman Island .
The island was first 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 them in 1956 after Richard Orme Werlein (* 1924) of the United States Navy , who had supported the crews of Operation Windmill (1947-1948) as a hydrographic assistant officer in January 1948 in setting up astronomical observation stations in this area .
Web links
- Werlein Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Werlein Island on geographic.org (English)