Name details

Piano Island

Piano Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Piano Island (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 140189

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Small island in the Svenner Islands located approximately 3 km WSW of the largest island in the group, Skips Island, and located in southern Prydz Bay

Named For

Named after the musical instrument to the honour the long-standing Antarctic tradition of playing music and singing songs to support community morale.

Location

Latitude:

69° 01' 00.0" S

-69.01667°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

76° 53' 42.0" E

76.89500°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Unknown

Source Person:

B. Wienecke

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

31-Mar-2021

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Aus_display_scale_1M:	No	Aus_display_scale_500k:	No
Aus_display_scale_250k:	No	Aus_display_scale_100k:	No
Aus_display_scale_50k:	No	Aus_display_scale_25k:	Yes
Aus_display_scale_10k:	Yes	Aus_display_scale_5k:	Yes
Aus_display_scale_1k:	Yes

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