SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Windmill Islands

Windmill Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Windmill Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 16132
Name ID: 879

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:

Windmill Islands (Russia)
Windmill Islands (United States of America)

Narrative

A strip of rocky islands about 11 km wide, parallel to the coast and extending north for about 28 km from Vanderford Glacier, on the eastern side of Vincennes Bay. Mapped from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Wilkes station was established there in 1957 and Casey station established there in 1969. Visited by helicopter by personnel for USN Operation Windmill (1947-48) after which the islands were named by USACAN.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 21' 00.0" S

-66.35000°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 25' 00.1" E

110.41669°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

200 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2024

Catalogue id: 3464B4
Photographer: Nation, Meredith

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

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:

11-Aug-1958

Related information

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