Asses Ears (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Asses Ears (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
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:
three small islands off NW Robert Island, forming part of Potmess Rocks (q.v.) and probably known to the early sealers, were charted and named descriptively by DI in 1934-35 (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). The Asses(') Ears (Nelson, 1935; BA, 1942, p.42; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.4). Islas Asses Ears (Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948). Roca Orejas de Burro [translation of English name] (Chile. IGM, 1948a, p.99). Islas Orejas de Burro (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.211; Pierrou, 1970, p.567; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.216). Orejas de Burro (Argentina. MM, 1958b, p.75). Isla Orejas de Burro, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.216).
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