Torckler Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Torckler 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:
The largest island in the southern part of the Rauer Group off the Ingrid Christensen Coast. The island is about 4 km long and reaches a height of about 115 m above sea level. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers, as being connected to the mainland, from photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).
Photographed by USN Operation Highjump and called Ranvik Island by USACAN. The position of the island was fixed by an ANARE party under J.C. Armstrong in 1959. Named after R. Torckler, radio officer at Davis in 1959.
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