Manning Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Manning 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.
An island about 1.9 km north of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Vikxy (Bay Island) by Norwegian cartographers.
Named after John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967, senior surveyor in the Prince Charles Mountains Surveys of 1968-69 and 1971-72. He carried out a survey traverse from Sandefjord Bay to Davis in 1968-69.
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