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Molholm Island

Molholm Island

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Molholm Island is an island at the entrance to McGrady Cove in the eastern part of Newcomb Bay, in the Windmill Islands of Antarctica.[1] The island was mapped from air photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1946–47, and was named by Carl R. Eklund for John Molholm, a glaciologist at Wilkes Station in 1957.[1]

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    "Molholm Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-10-29.


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