Boffa Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Boffa Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Rocky, ridge-like island, 0.8 mi long, lying 0.5 mi E of Browning Peninsula between Bosner and Birkenhauer Islands, in the S part of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the US-ACAN for W.C. Boffa, observer with the then Army Strategic Air Command, who assisted USN Operation Windmill parties in establishing astronomical control stations in the area in January 1948.
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