Name details

Bowman Island

Bowman Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bowman Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1048

Feature type: Island

Origin

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:

Narrative

An ice-covered island, about 44 km long and 4-11 km wide, shaped like a figure eight, about 53 km north-east of Cape Elliott on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. Discovered on 28 January, 1931, by BANZARE (1929-31), under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 12' 00.0" S
-65.20000°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
103° 00' 00.0" E
103.00000°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id LIMA E165_RGB_321_3X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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