Hughes Island

Hughes Island

Hughes Island is a small ice-covered island, the easternmost of the Lyall Islands, lying just outside the E part of the entrance to Yule Bay, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Ronald M. Hughes, USN, Medical Officer at McMurdo Station, 1966.


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