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Wilson Island (66°27′S 110°34′E / 66.450°S 110.567°E) is a mainly ice-free island lying between Browning Peninsula and Bosner Island in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for W. Stanley Wilson, biologist and member of the Wilkes Station party of 1961.
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[edit]- "Wilson Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Wilson Island (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
