Matthews Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Matthews Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
one of the Robertson Islands (q.v.) separated from the SE point of Coronation Island by The Divide (q.v.), was formerly charted as part of Coronation Island (BA chart 1775, 1956); surveyed by FIDS from Signy in January 1957, when its insularity was established; named after Dr Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931-1997), FIDS geologist, Signy, 1956-57; Reader in Marine Geology, Cambridge University, from 1971 (APC, 1959a, p.9; BA chart 1775, 13.x.1967). Mathews [sic] Island (DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963).
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