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Johnson Island (Antarctica)
Johnson Island
is an ice-covered island, about long and wide, lying within the
Abbot Ice Shelf
, Antarctica, about southeast of
Dustin Island
. The feature was observed and roughly positioned as an "
ice rise
" by parties from the in February 1961. It was remapped by the
United States Geological Survey
from
U.S. Navy
air photos, 1966, and was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
for Theodore L. Johnson, an electrical engineer at
Byrd Station
in 1964–65.
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