Name details

Fuller Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1073

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 off the north-eastern part of the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

Named For

Named by USACAN after H.F. Fuller, air crewman on the Operation Highjump seaplane which landed on one of the lakes in the Bunger Hills in February, 1947.

Location

Latitude:
66° 11' 32.3" S
-66.19230°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
100° 59' 11.8" E
100.98660°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
18-May-1971

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