The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic

Antarctic

The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 group of rocky islands and rocks about 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land

Wilkes Land

Wilkes Land is a large district of land in eastern Antarctica, formally claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though the validity of this claim has been placed for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to which Australia is a signatory...

 for 17 mi (27.4 km) immediately north of Vanderford Glacier

Vanderford Glacier

Vanderford Glacier is a glacier about 8 km wide flowing northwest into the southeast side of Vincennes Bay, slightly south of the Windmill Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Benjamin Vanderford, pilot of the sloop of war Vincennes of the United States...

 along the east side of Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay is a large V-shaped bay, 105 km wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt and Cape Folger in Antarctica, marked by several large, steep glaciers near its head, lying along Knox and Budd Coasts. Photographed from the air by USN OpHjp, 1946-47...

. Kirkby Shoal

Kirkby Shoal

Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than extending about westwards and SSW, about from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands, and NW of Stonehocker Point, Clark Peninsula.-Discovery and naming:...

 is a small shoal

Shoal

Shoal, shoals or shoaling may mean:* Shoal, a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping* Shoal draught , of a boat with shallow draught which can pass over some shoals: see Draft...

 area with depths of less than 18 metres (59 ft) extending about
140 metres (459 ft) westwards and SSW, about 3.4 km (2.1 mi) from the summit of Shirley Island

Shirley Island

Shirley Island is a rocky Antarctic island a long, lying northwest of the western end of Bailey Peninsula, in the Windmill Islands. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than extending about westwards and SSW, about from the summit of Shirley Island.Shirley Island was first...

, Windmill Islands, and 0.15 mi (0.241401 km) NW of Stonehocker Point

Stonehocker Point

Stonehocker Point is a rocky point on which Wilkes Station is built, forming the west extremity of Clark Peninsula. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Wilkes Station was established in 1937 and occupied by a U.S. party under C.R. Eklund. Named by Eklund...

, Clark Peninsula

Clark Peninsula

Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, long and 2 miles wide, lying at the north side of Newcomb Bay on Budd Coast. It was first mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947 and thought to be an island connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental ice...

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The Windmill Islands were mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump

Operation Highjump

Operation Highjump , officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by RADM Richard E. Byrd Jr. USN, , Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by RADM Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68....

, 1946-47. So named by the US-ACAN because personnel of Operation Windmill

Operation Windmill

Operation Windmill was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–1948. This operation was a follow up to the First Antarctica Development Project known as Operation Highjump. The expedition was commanded by Commander...

, 1947–48, landed on Holl Island

Holl Island

Holl Island is a rocky, triangular-shaped Antarctic island, long, marking the southwest end of the Windmill Islands. Mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and USN Operation Windmill, 1947-48. Named by the US-ACAN for Lt. Richard C...

 at the southwest end of the group to establish ground control for USN Operation Highjump photographs. The term "Operation Windmill" is a popular expression which developed after the expedition disbanded and refers to the extensive use of helicopters made by this group. The official title of this expedition was the 'Second Antarctic Development Project', U.S. Navy Task Force 39, 1947–48.

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• Austral Island
  Austral Island
  Austral Island is a small Antarctic island in the extreme southern lobe of Penney Bay, in the Windmill Islands. The island appears in air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump , but was not charted on subsequent maps...
  
  
• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Kilby Island
  Kilby Island
  Kilby Island is a rocky Antarctic island, long, lying northeast of McMullin Island in the entrance of Newcomb Bay, in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. It was named by the US-ACAN for Arthur L...
  
  
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
  The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science . It was established in February 1958 to continue the international coordination of Antarctic scientific activities that had begun during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58...
  
  
• Shirley Island
  Shirley Island
  Shirley Island is a rocky Antarctic island a long, lying northwest of the western end of Bailey Peninsula, in the Windmill Islands. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with depths of less than extending about westwards and SSW, about from the summit of Shirley Island.Shirley Island was first...
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica