Andersen Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Andersen Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A small island in the western part of the Robinson Group off Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in February, 1931; the island was also charted from the whaler Thorgaut about the same time. Named after Captain Lars Andersen of the whaler Falk who had assisted the Discovery with coal.
Captain Lars Andersen of the whaler Falk
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