Name details

Buromskiy Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1052

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 island about 0.6 km south of Haswell Island, off Queen Mary Land. The island was mapped by the Western Base Party of the AAE (1911-14). Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Mirny after a member of the expedition, N.I. Buromskiy, who died in Antarctica in 1957.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 32' 04.7" S
-66.53464°
Accurate to 50m
Longitude:
92° 59' 57.7" E
92.99936°
Accurate to 50m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id 10300100096D9000 not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:1500
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
D.Smith
Source Publisher:
DigitalGlobe
Remote sensing:
WorldView-2 satellite image captured 6 February 2011

Comments

Map 1 in the management plan adopted in 2011 for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 127 was used as a reference to identify the island in the satellite image.

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
11-Oct-1960

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