Davis Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Davis Islands (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:
A small group of rocky islands and rocks on the western side of Vincennes Bay. Mapped from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), also photographed by ANARE in 1956. Position fixed in Feburary 1960, during a landing by the ANARE Expedition on the Magga Dan led by Phillip Law. Named by USACAN after Malcolm Davis, bird curator of the Smithsonian Institution at the Washington (DC) Zoo, who was ornithologist with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).
Aus_display_scale_20M: | No | Aus_display_scale_10M: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_5M: | No | Aus_display_scale_2M: | Yes | ||
Aus_display_scale_1M: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_500k: | Yes | ||
Aus_display_scale_250k: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_100k: | Yes | ||
Aus_display_scale_50k: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_25k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_10k: | No | Aus_display_scale_5k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_1k: | No |
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