Wilson Island

Wilson Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wilson Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 16110
Name ID: 876

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

The largest of a group of small islands, about 1 km WNW of Bosner Island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

Named For

Named after W. Stanley Wilson, biologist at Wilkes in 1961.

Location

Latitude:
66° 27' 20.2" S
-66.45561°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 35' 03.8" E
110.58439°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
43 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Wind50K
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

Related information

Biodiversity
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Place names
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