Name details

Adelaide Island

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 107448

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

between 66 35' and 67 45'S off Loubet Coast and FalliSres Coast, was discovered and charted as an island 15km long on 14 February 1832 by Biscoe, whose log records: the island being the furthest known land to the southward, I have honoured it with the name of H[er] M[ost] G[racious] Majesty Queen Adelaide [of Sax-Meiningen (1792-1849), Queen Consort of King William IV of England] (Biscoe, 1830-33b; BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; APC, 1955, p.4). le Ad'la

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 15' 00.0" S
-67.25000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
68° 30' 00.0" W
-68.50000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Sep-1953

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