Name details

Wigg Islands

Wigg Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wigg Islands  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 931

Feature type: Island

Origin

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:

Narrative

A group of six small islands about 15 km north-west of Mawson station. The group was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mesteinene (the middle stones). One of the islands was included in a triangulation by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962.

Named For

Named after Dr. D.R. Wigg, medical officer at Mawson in 1962.

Location

Latitude:
67° 32' 30.5" S
-67.54181°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
62° 33' 37.8" E
62.56050°
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Altitude:
5 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
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Date approved:
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