Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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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Feature type: Island
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:
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 after W. Stanley Wilson, biologist at Wilkes in 1961.
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