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Wilson Island (Antarctica)
Wilson
Island
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
for W.
Stanley Wilson
, biologist and member of the
Wilkes Station
party
of 1961.