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)
Duke of York Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Duke of York 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:
A steep stratified island, 2 1/2 miles long in a north-south direction, near the southern end of Robertson Bay, along the north coast of Victoria Land. It rises to a height of 555m, and is remarkable for its layers of blue, red and green rock. Broad, deep quartz reefs cut through the island from east to west. It was first charted in 1899 by the BAE, 1898-1900, who named it for HRH the Duke of York.
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