Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Holl Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Holl 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:
A rocky, roughly triangular island, about 95 m above sea level, at the south-west end of the Windmill Islands, off the Budd Coast, Wilkes Lane. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and its position fixed by USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). Named by USACAN after Lieut. Richard C. Holl, USNR, a member of a survey team which visited the island during Operation Windmill.
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