Young Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Young Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The north-western island of the Balleny Islands. It is long and narrow, being about 19 milse long and 5 miles wide; rises gently to a height of about 1200m and is entirely snow-covered. There is no definite summit on the island, which is in the form of a plateau. Discovered on 9 February 1839 by Balleny, who named it for G F Young, one of the seven London merchants who joined Charles Enderby in sending out the expedition.
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