Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Aitcho Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aitcho Islands (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:
between Table Island and Dee Island, English Strait, South Shetland Islands, were charted and named by DI in 1935 after the Admiralty Hydrographic Office [HO] (BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.4; BA chart 1774, 19.vii.1968). Other features in this vicinity were named after members of the Hydrographic Office staff. Rocas Channel, in error (Channel Rock, q.v.) (Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948). The islands were recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1967. Islotes Turner (Isla Turner, q.v.) (Argentina. MM chart H-711, 1969). Islas Aitcho (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 1)
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