Wilson Island (Antarctica)
| Wilson Island | ||
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| Waters | Penney Bay | |
| Archipelago | Windmill Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 27 ′ S , 110 ° 34 ′ E | |
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Wilson Island is a largely ice-free island in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located between the Browning Peninsula and Bosner 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 the American marine biologist William Stanley Wilson (* 1938), a member of the team at Wilkes Station in 1961.
Web links
- Wilson Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilson Island on geographic.org (English)